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J on events leading
Samuel , capture and release of 74 Hanging-maw , capture of Creek murderer by order of 77 Hanging-maw , conference at Tellico attended by 79 Hanging-maw , killing of wife of 74 Hanging-maw , expedition against Creeks under 77 Hanging-maw , wounding of 74 Harden, E. J. , on events leading to Removal 125 Harden, William , acknowledgments to 13 Hard Labor , treaty of 46 , 203 Hard-mush , death of 145 Hard-mush on Iroquois peace embassy 353 , 355 , 356 Hard-mush , treaty with Texas signed by 144 Harley, Timothy , on Eskimo myths 441 Harley, Timothy on primitive ideas concerning eclipses 441 Harmony , development of lxxii–lxxiii Harris, Bird, plan for emigration by 156 Harris, I. N. , printer of Cherokee Phœnix 111 Harris, J. C. , on character of rabbit in negro tales 233 Harris, J. C. on negro myths 448 , 450 , 452 Harris, J. C. on relation of Indian, negro, and European myths 234 Harrison, Benjamin , proclamation by, preventing lease of Cherokee strip 153 Harrison , Gen. W. H., capture of Prophet’s town by 215 Hart, J. C. , on East Cherokee condition in 1897 179 Hatcher, J. B. , work of xviii Hatcinoñdoñ , legend of 362 , 490 – 491 Haunted whirlpool , legend of 347 Hawk , myths and lore concerning 284 , 286 – 287 Hawk , see also Tlă′nuwă .
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Jews or else like
Those musicians who are called German, the greatest and most famous foremost, are all foreigners, either Slavs, Croats, Italians, Dutchmen—or Jews; or else, like Heinrich Schütz, Bach, and Händel, they are Germans of a strong race which is now extinct.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Jews of East London
Rosenthal , Rev. Michael, Vicar of St. Mark's, Whitechapel, who died at the age of 63, was a converted Jewish rabbi, who for thirty years carried on an earnest missionary work among the Jews of East London.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

jubilee of every little
"What will father say?" "Won't Laurie laugh?" cried the family, all in one breath, as they clustered about Jo; for these foolish, affectionate people made a jubilee of every little household joy.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

jubilee of every little
"Won't Laurie laugh?" cried the family, all in one breath as they clustered about Jo, for these foolish, affectionate people made a jubilee of every little household joy.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jud of Eastbury Lodge
of E. Jud, of Eastbury Lodge, Essex.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

joy or even live
can I give My heart to joy, or even live?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Journal officiel et les
Vis-à-vis des autorités publiques, Juriconnexion a un rôle de médiateur et de lobbying à la fois. L'association, notamment, est favorable à la diffusion gratuite sur internet des données juridiques produites par le Journal officiel et les tribunaux.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

jog on either laugh
Therefore, my dear friend and companion, if you should think me somewhat sparing of my narrative on my first setting out—bear with me,—and let me go on, and tell my story my own way:—Or, if I should seem now and then to trifle upon the road,—or should sometimes put on a fool's cap with a bell to it, for a moment or two as we pass along,—don't fly off,—but rather courteously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside;—and as we jog on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing,—only keep your temper.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

justice or economic law
This, in essence, is the distinction between the socialist and the liberalist, i.e. he who accepts the democratic program of industrial reform: the socialist would practice injustice and invite economic ruin in a vain effort to eliminate poverty; the liberalist seeks the abolition of poverty without violating either justice or economic law.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

John of England looked
King John of England looked on their negation as an unholy novelty, though that negation was the leaven of the best of the life of the Middle Ages.
— from Confessions of a Book-Lover by Maurice Francis Egan

James Oswald Esq Lieut
James Oswald, Esq ; Lieut.
— from A Naval Expositor Shewing and Explaining the Words and Terms of Art Belonging to the Parts, Qualities and Proportions of Building, Rigging, Furnishing, & Fitting a Ship for Sea by Thomas Riley Blanckley

joy of expectant love
With such words of tenderness and hope, William Seymour soothed her apprehensions: and as several more days passed without any new cause for fear, Arabella became accustomed to their secret meetings, and looked for the hour of Seymour's coming with all the joy of expectant love; while he forgot the little incident of his meeting with Overbury, and gave himself up to a feeling of security.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

joys of everlasting love
( Lifting his hands to heaven. )— assuredly we shall meet again; there, possess in peace, the joys of everlasting love, and friendship—on earth imperfect and embittered.
— from The Canadian Elocutionist Designed for the Use of Colleges, Schools and Self Instruction, Together with a Copious Selection in Prose and Poetry of Pieces Adapted for Reading, Recitation and Practice by Anna K. (Anna Kelsey) Howard

Jewish or Egyptian lyre
The upper left-hand figure holds a trumpet; that on the right a stringed instrument, which neither resembles the Grecian, Roman, Jewish, or Egyptian lyre, but has precisely the same form as the modern "banjo" of the negroes.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 174, February 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

jaws of equal length
The mouth is small, the jaws of equal length, and furnished with small teeth; the palate has a curved row of similar teeth in front, and the tongue has teeth all along.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

joys of eternal life
They see how fully they are merited, and how righteously they are ordained: and as to their will, it no more revolts against that of God than if they were participating in the joys of eternal life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various


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