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me all the time only I didn

But he had it in for me all the time, only I didn't know it,—was ready any time to give me the double cross.
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

monks at the time of its dissolution

The society numbered three and thirty monks at the time of its dissolution, and about one hundred converts and servants, and no convert was admitted who could not pay for the labour of an hireling.
— from Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes by John Pagen White

Minorca and the truth of its defence

At the Queen’s Fort (the last of the three), the fate of Minorca, and the truth of its defence were decided.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second, Volume 2 (of 3) by Horace Walpole

Mexico at the time of important discoveries

For the antiquarian she contributes information both new and valuable, as she had the good fortune to be in Mexico at the time of important discoveries of Aztec remains.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

man at the time of its destruction

Walter Bower, Abbot of Inchcolm, who was a young man at the time of its destruction writes in the "Scotichronicon" that: "Because the masonry was exceedingly holding and solid, not without great toil was it broken down and demolished.
— from Highways and Byways in the Border Illustrated by Andrew Lang

Malabar at the time of its discovery

[17] One of the most brilliant modern examples of the Matriarchate was found in Malabar at the time of its discovery by the Portuguese in the XV century.
— from Woman, Church & State The Original Exposé of Male Collaboration Against the Female Sex by Matilda Joslyn Gage

moment and the thought of Isabel de

Bernard de Rohan understood him in a moment; and the thought of Isabel de Brienne was quite sufficient to make him spur on eagerly.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

mintage at the time of its deposition

From its great value in the tenth century, the evidence of recent mintage at the time of its deposition, and the vast number of rare and foreign coins, many of which were struck by Scandinavian kings or jarls, all lead to the conjecture that the treasure had not originally belonged to some private individual or inferior chieftain.
— from On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire And Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations. by Charles Hardwick

magnitude and the time occupied in describing

The equable description of areas proved the existence of a central force; the elliptical form of the planetary orbits, and the relation 81 between their magnitude and the time occupied in describing them, ascertained the law of its variation.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 1 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

mummy and the tomb of its dead

Each nome possessed the mummy and the tomb of its dead god: at Thinis there was the mummy and the tomb of Anhuri, the mummy of Osiris at Mendes, the mummy of Tûmû at Heliopolis.
— from History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

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