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made us xxvii
"And so I looked generally upon us all, and methought: If sin had not been, we should have all been clean, and like to our Lord as He made us " ( xxvii. ).
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY XXVIII
MR. FAGIN AND COMPANY XXVI IN WHICH A MYSTERIOUS CHARACTER APPEARS UPON THE SCENE; AND MANY THINGS, INSEPARABLE FROM THIS HISTORY, ARE DONE AND PERFORMED XXVII ATONES FOR THE UNPOLITENESS OF A FORMER CHAPTER; WHICH DESERTED A LADY, MOST UNCEREMONIOUSLY XXVIII LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS WITH HIS ADVENTURES XXIX HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH OLIVER RESORTED XXX RELATES WHAT OLIVER'S NEW VISITORS THOUGHT OF HIM XXXI INVOLVES
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

MOST UNGENTLEMANLY XXIII
MOST UNGENTLEMANLY XXIII.
— from The Deluge by David Graham Phillips

M UTINY XXIII
T HE F IRST S IGNS OF M UTINY XXIII.
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

MAN UNNATURAL XIII
MAN UNNATURAL XIII.
— from Wild Youth, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

Maj U xxvi
r., 105 , 106 , 107 Blondeau, Mr., 32 , 34 , 211 Blood of Christ mts., 490 Bloody run, 37 , 41 Bloomfield, Gov. J., lix 866 Blouin, Louis, 194 Blow Snake r. is translation of Ojibway name of Naiwa r. Blueberry cr., 143 Blue cr., br. of Ark. r., 443 , 444 Blue cr., br. of Gila r., 735 Blue Earth r., 65 , 68 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 349 Blue, Maj. U., xxvi , xxviii Blue Mound, Mo., 385 , is in S. E. ¼ of Sect.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

maior usq xxj
Adam Stable maior usq’ xxj m diem Marcij, quo die p’ p’ceptu’ regis amotus fuit, et Nich’s Brembre el’tus fuit p’ res’ a i .
— from A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Anonymous

ME UP XXXIX
AN UNEXPECTED MESSENGER LIFTS ME UP XXXIX.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

Matters Up XX
Scranton High Evens Matters Up XX.
— from The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant or, In the Three Town League by Donald Ferguson

MAY UNDERSTANDS XVI
ROOM XIII HELEN MAY SIGHS FOR ROMANCE XIV A SHOT FROM THE PINNACLE XV HELEN MAY UNDERSTANDS XVI STARR SEES TOO
— from Starr, of the Desert by B. M. Bower


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