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of African descent

At subsequent meetings it was decided to confine the work of the League to the one object of securing signatures to petitions 230 to the Senate and House of Representatives, praying for an act emancipating all persons of African descent held in involuntary servitude.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

other and did

Loth was that other, and did faint through feare, To taste th' untryed dint of deadly steele; But yet his Lady did so well him cheare, 305 That hope of new goodhap he gan to feele; So bent his speare, and spurd his horse with yron heele.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

on a distant

In the system of modern Europe, the power of the sword is possessed, at least in fact, by five or six mighty potentates; their operations are conducted on a distant frontier, by an order of men who devote their lives to the study and practice of the military art: the rest of the country and community enjoys in the midst of war the tranquillity of peace, and is only made sensible of the change by the aggravation or decrease of the public taxes.
— 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

often appear diffuse

The prose in which these works are composed is so compressed that the wording of the most laconic telegram would often appear diffuse compared with it.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

of a document

The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

of analogies drawn

Accordingly he was seen no more on earth only as a spirit The reader will observe that the foregoing list of analogies, drawn from the history of Apollonius, as furnished us by his disciple Damos and his biographer Philostratus, are found also, in almost every particular, in the history of Jesus Christ.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

of a disciple

[211] cannot be taken to exemplify the popular Elizabethan idea of a disciple of Macchiavelli.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

of a difficult

Looking at her silently for a long time; "She is a dear dear Tess," he thought to himself, as one deciding on the true construction of a difficult passage.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

officers and discuss

If Nelson, in 1789, spent many hours in explaining to his “band of brothers” his plans for his attack at the Nile, with fourteen sail-of-the-line, what must it have been for Sir John Jellicoe to communicate to his officers, and discuss with them, all his plans for every emergency or call for the service of every squadron and ship in his vast command?
— from The Achievement of the British Navy in the World-War by John Leyland

of a dark

He noted with secret satisfaction the occasional presence in the crowd of a dark-skinned soldier in British uniform, and he observed with some surprise the vast number of Abyssinian Arabs, whom he recognized by their peculiar dress.
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

of a duck

I caught up the nearest of the three boys and spanked him well for a bully; upon which the other two fled precipitately into the midst of a duck pond where they stood knee deep in the slimy water and dared me to follow them at my peril.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson

of Africa doubled

But their grandest feat was achieved about 600 years B.C., when they sailed down the Red Sea and the eastern coast of Africa, doubled the Cape of Good Hope, sailed up the western coast, and returned home by the Strait of Gibraltar.
— from Man on the Ocean: A Book about Boats and Ships by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

out a dispatch

Then you sent out a dispatch assuring us that your garrison was well prepared for a siege, and that nothing would prevail with you to open your gates.
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

of almsgiving done

"Well," said the Doctor, "I don't think it fair to let you boys share in what was a purely personal bit of almsgiving, done without any sort of consultation with any of you, but as you insist I will say that I gave the man a twenty dollar bill."
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

of a drier

Figures obtained from the actual working of a drier in Ceylon are given below: Chamber 1.—Temperature 160°-180°F.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

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— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

ouches auteurs de

ouches, auteurs de tout le mal, devaient seules être punies: il permit donc au paysan de les tuer sans pitié partout où il les rencontrerait .
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

of a decent

They lived together for five or six years in Provence, without exciting any attention, apparently possessed of a decent independence.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay

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