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more intelligible lessons of their

The Ostrogoths, the Burgundians, the Suevi, and the Vandals, who had listened to the eloquence of the Latin clergy, preferred the more intelligible lessons of their domestic teachers; and Arianism was adopted as the national faith of the warlike converts, who were seated on the ruins of the Western empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

miles in length on the

Next to the river is an ellegent bottom Plain which extends Several miles in length on the river in this low Prarie the Missouries lived after They were reduced by the Saukees at Their Town Some Dists.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

miles in length on the

The under groth rushes, vines &c. in the bottoms too thick to pass through, at 3 miles I arrived at the enterance of a river which appeared to Scatter over a Sand bar, the bottom of which I could See quite across and did not appear to be 4 Inches deep in any part; I attempted to wade this Stream and to my astonishment found the bottom a quick Sand, and impassable—I called to the Canoes to put to Shore, I got into the Canoe and landed below the mouth, & Capt Lewis and my Self walked up this river about 11/2 miles to examine this river which we found to be a verry Considerable Stream Dischargeing its waters through 2 Chanels which forms an Island of about 3 miles in length on the river and 11/2 miles wide, composed of Corse Sand which is thrown out of this quick Sand river Compressing the waters of the Columbia and throwing the whole Current of its waters against its Northern banks, within a Chanel of 1/2 a mile wide, Several Small Islands 1 mile up this river, This Stream has much the appearance of the River Plait; roleing its quick Sands into the bottoms with great velocity after which it is divided into 2 Chanels by a large Sand bar before mentioned, the narrowest part of this River is 120 yards-on the Opposit Side of the Columbia a falls in above this Creek on the Same Side is a Small prarie.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

many Indians liveing on the

Grat many Indians liveing on the Bay & those two rivers, the the Countrey on the Stard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

mop is laid over the

The mop is laid over the side of the boat.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

meantime immense librations of the

Two lovers hide themselves in the evening, in the twilight, in the invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they murmur, they whisper, and in the meantime, immense librations of the planets fill the infinite universe.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

me in London on the

The other was one of the men who had followed me in London on the day when I left Mr. Kyrle's office.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

minutes interval look over there

"Now," he added, after a few minutes' interval, "look over there"; and, following the direction of his outstretched arm, I saw nothing but the dim outlines of a break in the sand-hills that fringed the Canal.
— from The Treasure of the "San Philipo" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

mobile in lieu of the

An account of this invention was published in London in 1825, in the language of the inventor, who says: The description of the perpetual pump has suggested to me whether the long-sought "perpetual motion" may not be found by a simple mechanical alteration of that machine, and substituting a cannon-ball as a primum mobile , in lieu of the water, not always obtainable.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

Moreover in light of the

Moreover, in light of the flaws in these studies, discussed in detail in our findings of fact above, these percentages significantly underestimate the amount of speech that filters erroneously block, and at best provide a rough lower bound on the filters' rates of overblocking.
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

most interesting lectures of the

This lecture is one of the ablest and most interesting lectures of the late Cardinal Wiseman.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

most intelligent looking of the

The captain signaled to one of the most intelligent looking of the prisoners, and the latter stepped out, clicked his heels together smartly and saluted.
— from Army Boys in the French Trenches; Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy by Homer Randall

morality is lax on the

The truth is, that the public morality is lax on the subject of fruit.
— from My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner

made inequalities leaving only the

I am satisfied that when we destroy man-made inequalities, leaving only the [166] inequalities of Nature's making, there will be no need to fear the dull level of life.
— from The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by John Spargo

months in line on the

After about four months in line on the Somme the losses in casualties and prisoners led to the dissolution of the division in September.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

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