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old Bastille Electors after some ten

The old Bastille Electors, after some ten days of psalmodying over their glorious victory, began to hear it asked, in a splenetic tone, Who put you there?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

out between England and Spain the

[85] When the war broke out between England and Spain, "the latter claimed the advantage of her defensive alliance with France.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

of Bouillon established a second tribunal

It is expressly declared in the Assise of Jerusalem, that after instituting, for his knights and barons, the court of peers, in which he presided himself, Godfrey of Bouillon established a second tribunal, in which his person was represented by his viscount.
— 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

of Brittany embraced a small tract

The old territorial limits of the Province of Brittany embraced a small tract south of the Loire, known as Le Rais , or the Retz country.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

of brown earth and sprouting things

So the winter rolled away, and almost before we knew it the spring days came stealing in from the South, bringing to me their urgent call of brown earth and sprouting things.
— from Revelations of a Wife The Story of a Honeymoon by Adele Garrison

on board early and see the

The fortnight passed rapidly, and Francis enjoyed his stay at the merchant's greatly, but he was not sorry when, at the end of ten days, Polani told him that the lading of the vessel would begin the next day, and that he had best go on board early and see the cargo shipped, so that he might check off the bales and casks as they were sent on board, and see where each description of goods was stowed away.
— from The Lion of Saint Mark: A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

of being eaten and so took

We discussed the problem as we roamed the wood, and Dan and Peter almost quarrelled over it, Dan maintaining that the thing was impossible, and Peter being of the opinion that the mush was somehow “made thicker” in the process of being eaten, and so took up less room.
— from The Story Girl by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

on being explained are seen to

How often do we find ourselves checkmated and puzzled by trivial circumstances, which, on being explained, are seen to be exceedingly simple!—W. [84] I believe that these observations on the presence of the harvester ant in Arkansas are unique; at least I have been unable to find any data corroborative of this fact.
— from The Dawn of Reason; or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James, Jr.

on both earth and sea the

They thus correspond: They both [pg 301] descend from heaven: the one is a mighty angel, and the other has great power; the one is enveloped with a robe of cloud, his head is arched with the rainbow, his face is like the sun, and his feet like fire, and he stands on both earth and sea; the other is so glorified, and occupies a position so conspicuous, that the earth is enlightened with his glory; and the one cries “with a loud voice as when a lion roareth,” while the other cries “mighty with a strong voice.”
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

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