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made a voyage in the year
With this loving object before him, he had made a voyage in the year 1801 without success.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

machine at Vienna in the year
On page 83, under the heading of “Automaton,” is this statement: “Frederick Von Knauss completed a writing machine at Vienna in the year 1760.
— from The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin by Harry Houdini

Matthiolus at Venice in the year
The Herbal published by Matthiolus at Venice in the year 1633 is a particularly fine book.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

made a voyage in that year
Possibly he may have accompanied Corte-Real in 1500, or himself made a voyage in that year (see next chapter), before he came to Bristol; of that we know nothing, but in that case the name refers to some such Portuguese voyage, on which we know that Greenland was sighted in 1500, though the voyagers were unable to reach the coast (see next chapter).
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

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