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lead up to the elevated road
He neglected to tell them that elevated trains, as well as other cars, travel both up and down New York City, and the way to discover which way 30 the “L” train is moving is to consult the signs on the steps that lead up to the elevated road.
— from Madge Morton's Victory by Amy D. V. Chalmers

looking up to the Eternal Reason
To train and use that reason in all our exigencies, humbly looking up to the Eternal Reason to let the light in us be pure and clear, is the way to hear the Word of God.
— from The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible by Richard Heber Newton

lead up to the enduring realities
[46] Having thus shown how, on the principles of the priesthood of Aaron , the Lord Jesus had proved Himself to be a priest, although of the higher and more perfect order of Melchisedec—the order of righteousness and peace, and everlasting endurance—this epistle points out in a very conclusive manner the defects of the Mosaic institutions, which were enjoined for a time only, to prepare the way, and lead up to the enduring realities of the Gospel of Christ.
— from Jesus Fulfils the Law by Anonymous

Leather Unknown to the Earliest Races
Leather and Prehistoric Man.—Earliest Implements and Processes Forerunners of Modern Inventions.—Modern Leather Unknown to the Earliest Races.—Tanning.—Leathers of Different Nations.—Hand Tools and Variety of Operations.—Inventions of Nineteenth Century—Labour-Saving Machinery and New Processes.—Epoch of Modern Machinery.—1780, John Bull and his Scraping Machine, Hide-mill, Pioneer Machine of Century.—Fleshing Machines.—Tanning Apparatus.—Reel Machines.—Tanning Processes and the Chemists.—Machines for Different Operations.—Pendulum Lever Machine.—Leather Splitting, and other Remarkable Machines.—Boots and Shoes, their Character before Modern Inventions.—Randolph's Riveting Machine of 1809.—Great Civil Engineer, J. M. Brunel's Machines.—1818, Walker Invents the Wooden Peg.—Peg-making Machines.—1858, Sturtevant's Great Improvement.—Fifty-five Million Pairs of Boots and Shoes then Annually Pegged.—Metal Wire, and Screw Pegs.—Last-turning Machines of Blanchard.—McKay's Shoe Sewing Machine.—Revolution in Shoe Making.—Special Machines for Making Every Part.—One Machine Makes 300 Pairs a Day.—Many Millions made Daily.—Vast Increase of Labourers as the Art Advances.—Illustrations of Yankee Enterprise.—Modern and Ancient Harnesses.—Embossed Leather.—Book Covers and the many Useful and Beautiful Leather Articles.—The Vast and Important Leather Manufactures.
— from Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle


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