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lighting each step carefully over the

“I consider the possibility of rattlesnake bite the one biggest danger in the whole Sierra,” declared Norris, one night, lighting each step carefully over the rocks.
— from Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee

L Early Spanish Cartography of the

See especially Bk. IV on Variation, Pedro Medina in his Art de Navigar, Valladolid, 1545, contended that the magnetic needle always points to the true north; Stevenson, E. L. Early Spanish Cartography of the New World.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

listened expecting some confirmation of the

The prisoner stood motionless by the sapling to which he was bound; Mahéga smoked his pipe in the full confidence of anticipated triumph, surrounded by his warriors, who, less sceptical, or more superstitious than their chief, looked and listened, expecting some confirmation of the last words of Prairie–bird.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

latch ere she could open the

Whatever had been deposited would certainly be concealed: she resolved, therefore, to make the experiment, though her hand shook so violently, that, more than once, it dropt from the latch ere she could open the door.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 4 of 5) by Fanny Burney

letter E so characteristic of the

The house itself was modelled as are nearly all such residences of the Tudor period, the gables at either end making, with the hall, the formation of the letter E so characteristic of the architecture of that time.
— from Sally Bishop: A Romance by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

Last evening some correspondents of The

Learning that The Confederate commented upon our request, we induced an attaché of the prison to smuggle a copy to us, and found the following leader:— "Last evening some correspondents of The New York World and New York Tribune were brought here among a batch of prisoners captured at Vicksburg a few days ago.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

longest elongate somewhat compressed over thrice

Antennæ 11-jointed, tapering, the club single and no longer than the pedicel, funicle 1 quadrate, 2 longest, elongate, somewhat compressed, over thrice the length of the pedicel.
— from Journal of Entomology and Zoology, Vol. 09, No. 1, March 1917 by Various

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