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of Chester the outlaw and the earl

In Longland's poem, entitled The Vision of Pierce Ploughman , the date of which is between 1355 and 1365, mention is made of 'rymes of Robyn Hood and Randolph Earl of Chester,' the outlaw and the earl being apparently both regarded as historical personages, about whom songs had been written.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 452 Volume 18, New Series, August 28, 1852 by Various

one could think of any thing else

No one could think of any thing else, or speak of any thing else; everybody was shaking hands with everybody, and in the hum of amateur speechifying, half a dozen together, Cosmo had hard work to recall even that sober personage, the postmaster, who felt {171} himself to some extent a representative of government and natural moderator of the general excitement, to some sense of his duties.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

of cold than of any thing else

Even in one day there was a visible improvement in the men, and Dawber's attack seemed to be rather the effects of cold than of any thing else.
— from Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume I by Charles Sturt

on counting the one amidst the essences

If nevertheless, on counting the one amidst the essences of which He is the cause, He was to be considered as a genus to which the other essences were to be subordinated, and from which they differed; if, besides, the one was not to be predicated of the other essences either as genus, or in any other respect, it would still be necessary that the genera which possessed essence subsume species under them; since, for instance, by moving, you produce 897 walking, and yet walking cannot be considered a genus subordinate to you; but above the walking there existed nothing else that could, in respect to it, operate as a genus; and if nevertheless there existed things beneath walking, walking would, in respect to them, be a genus of the essences.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

of casting them out at the earliest

If it receives them it is with a protest, and an evident intention of casting them out at the earliest opportunity—it makes, it is true, one or two exceptions.
— from Principles of Home Decoration, With Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler

of cutting them off as they effected

He determined at once to attempt a surprise, with a view of cutting them off, as they effected a landing.
— from The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West by Edward Sylvester Ellis

of carrying them out at the earliest

The second item of intelligence was a dispatch from Soult, acknowledging the receipt of the orders which had been sent to him upon the twenty-second, and stating his intention of carrying them out at the earliest possible moment.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

of Christ there occurred at the evening

At length, on November 13th, when the Brethren in the other congregations were celebrating the centenary of the Headship of Christ, there occurred, at the evening Communion at Niesky, "something new, something unusual, something mightily surprising."
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

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