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joined us we Camped
Setting the boat, all hand jumped out on the upper Side and bore on that Side untill the Sand washed from under the boat and wheeled on the next bank by the time She wheeled a 3rd Time got a rope fast to her Stern and by the means of Swimmers was Carred to Shore and when her Stern was down whilst in the act of Swinging a third time into Deep water near the Shore, we returned, to the Island where we Set out and assended under the Bank which I have just mentioned, as falling in, here George Drewyer & Willard, two of our men who left us at St. Charles to Come on by land joined us, we Camped about 1 mile above where we were So nearly being lost, on the Labd Side at a Plantation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

joined us with Collins
Pryor and Gibson joined us with Collins who had killed 3 deer.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Jerusalem universally who came
Now in the seventh month after they were departed out of Babylon, both Jeshua the high priest, and Zorobabel the governor, sent messengers every way round about, and gathered those that were in the country together to Jerusalem universally, who came very gladly thither.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

joined up with certain
Also it's likely that a sixth current used to exist in the northern Indian Ocean, when the Caspian and Aral Seas joined up with certain large Asian lakes to form a single uniform expanse of water.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Jupiter upon which Chaerea
Others say, that the crowd being kept at a distance by some centurions who were in the plot, Sabinus came, according to custom, for the word, and that Caius gave him “Jupiter,” upon which Chaerea cried out, “Be it so!”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

JOHN U WOLFF Cornell
JOHN U. WOLFF Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program and Linguistic Society of the Philippines 1972 [ ii ] [ Contents ]
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

just until we come
They continually use the expression, "Workmen should not be asked to do more than a fair day's work," which sounds right and just until we come to see how it is applied.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor

jostle us we can
"We are among them; they jostle us; we can scarcely breathe.
— from The Garden of Eden by Max Brand

joined us with countenances
They joined us with countenances full of health and glee.
— from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

joined up with Captain
Well, I ain't much younger than you were, Drew Rennie, when you joined up with Captain Castleman and rode south to join General Morgan—you and Shelly.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton

justly urge we cannot
Moreover, they justly urge, we cannot be certain that betrothal by the "woman's father or other protector was essential to a valid marriage; we have to reckon with the possibility—and it is somewhat more than a possibility—of marriage by capture.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

jumped up with clenched
Captain Burton jumped up with clenched fists.
— from A Traitor in London by Fergus Hume

jumped up with cries
So sharp and strong were the pains to which he became subject that even in his dreams he thought he was still lunging, and jumped up with cries of pain.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 1 by Armando Palacio Valdés


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