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left Acre in November or

Now we know from Rainaldus that Pope Gregory left Acre in November or December, 1271, and the text appears to imply that our travellers left Acre before him.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

look as if nothing of

This he repressed, as speedily as possible, and strove to look as if nothing of the kind had happened.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

large although indefinite number of

Lind, in his “Treatise on the Scurvy,” published in 1772, included a chapter on “dissections” and a postscript on “Appearances on Dissections of Scorbutic Bodies,” based on a large, although indefinite, number of postmortem examinations.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

live an incalculable number of

The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

lengthy and involved narrative of

"Now, after that it's easier to explain what I came about," said Mr. Fotheringay; and proceeded to a lengthy and involved narrative of his strange experiences, beginning with the affair of the lamp in the Long Dragon and complicated by persistent allusions to Winch.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Lived awhile in New Orleans

Lived awhile in New Orleans, and work'd there on the editorial staff of "daily Crescent" newspaper.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

lost and I need only

By what accident he came acquainted with me is too tedious to tell you now; but I have this morning changed my lodgings to avoid him, lest he should by my means discover my cousin; for he doth not yet know where she is, and it is adviseable he should not, till my uncle hath secured her.——No time therefore is to be lost; and I need only inform you, that she is now with Lady Bellaston, whom I have seen, and who hath, I find, a design of concealing her from her family.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

large and indefinite number of

A large and indefinite number of Upanishads is attributed to the Atharva-veda , but the most authoritative list recognises twenty-seven altogether.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

lalt a in noue ogni

i ma Jzolla ſta in quindiſi gradi de latitudine aL hauſtralle, et lalt a in noue ogni Jorno faceuamo cinquanta ſesanta et ſetanta Legue a La catena ho apopa et ſe ydio et ſala ſua madre bennedeta nõ ne daua cosi bõ tempo moriuamo tucti de fame in queſto mare grandiſſimo Credo certamẽte nõ ſi fara may piu taL viagio.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

land and its new owners

To most readers the vehemence with which the author of the ‘Dirae,’ under similar circumstances, curses the land and its new owners, appears, if less sweet and musical, more natural than this mild submission to superior force expressed by Virgil.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

looking at it not only

Perhaps our understanding of this decree of an all-wise nature to increase and multiply will be heightened by looking at it not only from its familiar manifestations in man, but more broadly.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

listened as if no other

They leaned forward and listened as if no other man had spoken.
— from A Beginner's History by William H. (William Harrison) Mace

look at it no one

To look at it, no one would have taken it for an apparition.
— from The Ghost: A Modern Fantasy by Arnold Bennett

letters attainable in no other

Much would be gained by substituting, generally, WRITING for designing , because writing being the medium by which nearly all our letters have been evolved from the Roman Capital (see p. 35 ), the use of the pen—essentially a letter-making tool—gives a practical insight into the construction of letters attainable in no other way.
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

land at Ingelminster north of

A few days later a motor breakdown compelled him to land at Ingelminster, north of Courtrai, and he was made prisoner.
— from Georges Guynemer: Knight of the Air by Henry Bordeaux

line and in number of

This metre, apart from differences in the length of the line and in number of accents, is by no means to be looked upon as different from the remaining even-stressed metres of that time.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

locality an immense number of

There are in the same locality an immense number of tumuli of various dimensions, among which Herr Spiegelthal fancies he can discriminate three classes, belonging to three distinct ages; that of Alyattes belonging to the most modern.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

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