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month in this sequestered vale on the

Each succeeding day of quiet increased his confidence, while he rounded out month after month in this sequestered vale on the far confines of civilization, and the girl attained her twelfth year.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

Miscellany in the second volume of the

In the first volume of 1840 we find illustrations by Alfred Crowquill in the Miscellany; in the second volume of the same year Leech appeared, both on wood and steel.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 1. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

malady infects the second volume of the

The same malady infects the second volume of the Industrial History of the Free Nations (1846), by W. Torrens M'Cullagh (afterwards M'Cullagh Torrens); but this, which deals with Holland, is the better section of that treatise, and it gives distinct help to a scientific conception of the process of Dutch history, as does J.R. M'Culloch's Essay on the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Commerce in Holland , which is one of the best of his Essays and Treatises (2nd ed. 1859).
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

me in this smiling vale of tears

However, let Tom have his say. " Beloved George ,—You are my best friend, the only one that understands me, in this smiling vale of tears.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Mai in the second volume of the

[35] These four books were printed by Cardinal Angelo Mai in the second volume of the Spicilegium Romanum , from two MSS.
— from Lorenzo de' Medici, the Magnificent (vol. 2 of 2) by Alfred von Reumont

Mines in the second volume of the

[100] See Dr. Forbes's Paper "On the Temperature of Mines," in the second volume of the Transactions of the Cornish Society.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

mentioned in the sixth verse of that

The four hundred prophets mentioned in the sixth verse of that chapter are emphatically denominated “Ahab's prophets,” notwithstanding they professed to be the Lord's prophets.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Various

Maisch in the same volume of the

M. Maisch, in the same volume of the same journal, p. 496, who obtained 4 grains of alkaloid from 1,500 grains of coca, which is also about a quarter of one per cent.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

matter in the same volume of the

4,150 FOOTNOTES: [5] There are numerous other letters pertaining to this matter in the same volume of the Provincial State Papers.
— from The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne Friend Cook

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