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opinion confirmed by Count Fosco

But before they went there, it was his opinion, confirmed by Count Fosco (who here took up the conversation and continued it to the end), that they would benefit by a short residence first in the genial climate of Torquay.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

of Coffee by Continents Fiscal

Pre-War Average Annual Production of Coffee by Continents Fiscal years: 1910–1914 Total pounds:
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

of confidences between Count Fosco

I made my answers as short as I civilly could, for I had already determined to check the least approach to any exchanging of confidences between Count Fosco and myself.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

or C B Caracanda Frères

Other well-known Mocha marks are M R (Maurice Ries) with the figure of a camel, a star, or deer's head between the letters; L F or L B (Livierato Frères); C F or C B (Caracanda Frères).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

out certain baskets containing fruits

In the Kei Islands, when the warriors have departed, the women return indoors and bring out certain baskets containing fruits and stones.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

of court be chiefly furnished

The houses of court be replenished partly with young students, and partly with graduates and practisers of the law; but the inns of Chancery, being, as it were, provinces, severally subjected to the inns of court, be chiefly furnished with officers, attorneys, solicitors, and clerks, that follow the courts of the King’s Bench or Common Pleas; and yet there want not some other being young students, that come thither sometimes from one of the Universities, and sometimes immediately from grammar schools; and these having spent some time in studying upon the first elements and grounds of the law, and having [72] performed the exercise of their own houses (called Boltas Mootes, [91] and putting of cases), they proceed to be admitted, and become students in some of these four houses or inns of court, where continuing by the space of seven years or thereabouts, they frequent readings, meetings, boltings, and other learned exercises, whereby growing ripe in the knowledge of the laws, and approved withal to be of honest conversation, they are either, by the general consent of the benchers or readers, being of the most ancient, grave, and judicial men of every inn of the court, or by the special privilege of the present reader there, selected and called to the degree of utter barristers, and so enabled to be common counsellors, and to practice the law, both in their chambers and at the bars.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

of California be conquered for

In view of the importance of this work in California among the Chinese, involving the interests of that great nation beyond the Pacific, involving the good name of Church and Redeemer, involving as we believe the perpetuity of our institutions: in view of the encouragements afforded in God’s word, endorsed by His providences, by the excellent elements found in the Chinese character, and by the trophies already gathered; in view of the very necessity that is laid upon us, and the quickened attention of the churches toward that people, what is your answer, Christian brethren, to the practical questions: “Can the Chinese of California be conquered for Christ?
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 11, November 1880 by Various

of course but chiefly for

He is fond of money, of course; but chiefly for the sake of his widowed mother, and two sisters whom he supports.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

one cannot be conceived for

A better one cannot be conceived, for, as the decomposed granite consists of gravelly and argillaceous earths, they bind excellently together, and form a solid foundation, so as to make a road as smooth as a threshing floor.
— from Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

old country blood counts for

He surely was proud of the fact that he was of gentle birth, which well he might have been, for that was no disgrace to him, any more than it is disgraceful to be of lowly birth, although in the old country blood counts for something.
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

or conservation but chiefly for

The world becomes almost instinctively defined as a hegemony of spirits similar to man, with powers and passions like his, and directed for his destruction or conservation, but chiefly for their own glory and self-maintenance.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

of cocoons being caused first

In 1767, ten thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight pounds of balls were raised, and six hundred and seventy-one pounds nine ounces of raw silk spun; the decrease of cocoons being caused, first, by withdrawing of the Purysburgh cocoons, which last year amounted to five thousand five hundred and fifty-one pounds; and second, by the reduction of bounty, so that while last year the cocoons were delivered in by two hundred and sixty-four different persons, only one hundred and sixty individuals were this year devoted to the culture.
— from Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America. by Thaddeus Mason Harris

of compressed bright colored fishes

(b) One of several species of compressed, bright colored fishes warm seas, belonging to the family, Ch‘todontid‘. Ð ÷ gold, standard gold.
— from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1st 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

one could better come from

We murmured some banality about not knowing a place where one could better come from than Boston.
— from Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells

of coffee beads combs fish

First there was a message of love and inviolable peace, the production of presents of coffee, beads, combs, fish-hooks, and knives, and the promise of a grindstone when it pleased the Emperor to send for it.
— from The Story of Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner

OF COAL By CHARLES FITZHUGH

An electric trolley, with 5½-ton bucket, travels on each bridge, carrying coal from the boat to storage, or to railroad car, or to screening apparatus in the rear THE STORY OF COAL By CHARLES FITZHUGH TALMAN Editorial Writer for the Scientific American MENTOR GRAVURES FOSSIL FERN FROM COAL MINE · TIPPLE
— from The Mentor: The Story of Coal, vol. 6, Num. 6, Serial No. 154, May 1, 1918 by Charles Fitzhugh Talman

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