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including the Echo communications satellites

Flown as an upper stage on Thor and Atlas boosters, Agena orbited an impressive roster of spacecraft including the Echo communications satellites, the Ranger and Lunar Orbiter Moon probes, and the Mariner vehicles that traveled to Venus and Mars.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

in the east c Shakespeare

[ But stay: what star shines yonder in the east, &c. Shakespeare, it would seem, recollected this passage, when he wrote,— "But, soft!
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

In this empire christian slaves

In this empire christian slaves are treated with the greatest cruelty: the rich have exorbitant ransoms fixed upon them; the poor are hard worked, and half starved sometimes murdered by the emperor, or their masters, for mere amusement.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

in the earlier chapter see

I will not repeat arguments sufficiently detailed in the earlier chapter (see especially pp.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

in the end Came sneaking

The idlers also, with the tribe Of those who to themselves prescribe Their ease and pleasure, in the end Came sneaking, lest they should offend.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

in the elbow chair said

‘Sit thee down, master, in the elbow chair,’ said the old man, knocking his stick upon the brick floor, and trying to do so sharply.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

In the evening comes Sir

In the evening comes Sir W. Pen, pretty merry, to sit with me and talk, which we did for an hour or two, and so good night, and I to bed. 3d (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In this extensive city sore

And there, a little shelter'd from the shot, Which rain'd from bastion, battery, parapet, Rampart, wall, casement, house,—for there was not In this extensive city, sore beset By Christian soldiery, a single spot Which did not combat like the devil, as yet, He found a number of Chasseurs, all scatter'd By the resistance of the chase they batter'd.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

in the earth cold steel

As to walls, Megillus, I agree with Sparta that they should sleep in the earth; 'cold steel is the best wall,' as the poet finely says.
— from Laws by Plato

is then easily calculated so

The circle must be [351] accurate, and its area is then easily calculated, so that one can estimate the amount of rainfall, however large the receiving vessel may be.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out by Fred. T. (Frederick Thomas) Hodgson

in the Eighteenth Century small

Mr. Lecky, in his theory of the English aristocracy, credits the nobility with an "eminently popular character" from time immemorial, and cites Comines as to "the singular humanity of the nobles to the people during the civil wars" ( History of England in the Eighteenth Century , small ed.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

is the Eddy County seat

It is the Eddy County seat and the home of Ole H. Olson, a Governor of the State (1934).
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

in the East called Sephar

It is said in Scripture that Ophir lies between Mesha and a mountain in the East called Sephar.
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

in their externals can see

After this, the angel informed him concerning the ground and origin of the changes of the state of his sights; saying, "I perceive that in the world, from which you are come, you have been two-fold, in internals having been quite a different man from what you were in externals; in externals you have been a civil, moral, and rational man; whereas in internals, you have been neither civil, moral, nor rational, because a libertine and an adulterer: and such men, when they are allowed to ascend into heaven, and are there kept in their externals, can see the heavenly things contained therein; but when their internals are opened, instead of heavenly things they see infernal.
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

in their expenses cannot send

Men that are obliged to count the very last penny in their expenses cannot send many orders to florists for beautiful things, but must take what they can get in their own neighborhood.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

into the Egyptian Civil Service

When you go down, you'll go into the Egyptian Civil Service and you'll sprawl across the Sahara in exactly the same way.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

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