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long unnatural cry ringing over

To—o—om!" came her long, unnatural cry, ringing over the night.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

leave us crushed rebellious or

Two statements, next, may at once be made regarding the tragic fact as he represents it: one, that it is and remains to us something piteous, fearful and mysterious; the other, that the [26] representation of it does not leave us crushed, rebellious or desperate.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

led us captive required of

For they that led us captive required of us songs,
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Isaiah, Volume 2 (of 2) by George Adam Smith

left us clearer records of

The Assyrians have left us clearer records of their achievements in the invention of weapons than has any other ancient nation.
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

land upon Connecticut river of

It is a large tract of flat land upon Connecticut river, of great fertility and value (one hundred and fifty or two hundred dollars an acre,) containing altogether several thousand acres.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

left under Captain Ross of

The whole party here embarked in the canoes, the right under command of Lieutenant Lawson, the left under Captain Ross of the mariners.
— from A correct and authentic narrative of the Indian war in Florida with a description of Maj. Dade's massacre, and an account of the extreme suffering, for want of provision, of the army—having been obliged to eat horses' and dogs' flesh, &c, &c. by Barr, James, Captain

left us copious records of

The people who saw her in her old age—Flaubert, Gautier, the Goncourts—have left us copious records of her odd appearance, her perpetual cigarette smoking, and her whimsical life at Nohant.
— from Chopin : the Man and His Music by James Huneker

lasted until Clara reappeared on

The cheering lasted until Clara reappeared on the platform.
— from Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

look up cross references or

He never even by any chance departed from this routine either to look up cross references, or read anything further about men who were mentioned in the article he was going through at the moment and whose names occurred in another volume.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

led us captive required of

For there they that led us captive required of us songs, and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

led us captive requireth of

"We are so happy in this country that we must celebrate even when we don't want to," said a Hester street storekeeper, and then he quoted the words of the Psalms in the traditional monotone: "And they who led us captive requireth of us a song."
— from Discourses of Keidansky by Bernard G. Richards

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