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or fourteen feet long are placed

Poles, twelve or fourteen feet long, are placed in the ground, these meeting at the top, and leaving an opening through which the smoke may escape.
— from A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians by J. B. Mackenzie

or four fingers long and pretty

"Make to yourself," he says, "a rotating needle of any sort of metal three or four fingers long and pretty light and poised on a sharp point.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian

one free from lint a pair

The box proved to have in it two cloths, one of flannel, and a white one free from lint; a pair of scissors; a round brush with a wire handle, and a piece of soap.
— from A Little Housekeeping Book for a Little Girl; Or, Margaret's Saturday Mornings by Caroline French Benton

of from father lead as pleasant

“I wonder,” said Charlie, sitting down for the fiftieth time, on a bank “whereon time grew” to such an extent that he seemed to take no account of it whatever; “I wonder if the people in the big world we’ve heard so much of from father lead as pleasant lives as we do.”
— from The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

other form for life and Pg

Life is valued only in so far as they are prepared to lay it aside, or rather to change it for some other form; for life and [Pg 207] death are but the perpetual ebb and flow, the advance or retrograde, of soul toward "the Soul."
— from Life and Travel in India Being Recollections of a Journey Before the Days of Railroads by Anna Harriette Leonowens

other forming flowers like a pea

Of exogenous trees, the majority were leguminous in some shape or other, forming flowers like a pea or vetch and hanging their seed in pods; yet in shape and foliage they distanced far the most splendid ornaments of an English park.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

of faithful fervid loving and persuasive

Nowadays a large portion of sermons are addressed to professing Christians; many others are addressed to nobody in particular, but there is less of faithful, fervid, loving and persuasive discourses to the unconverted.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

or fifteen feet long and parallel

Full particulars of such an operation are given by Misson :— “They fasten an arm-chair to the end of two strong beams, twelve or fifteen feet long, and parallel to each other.
— from The History of Signboards, from the Earliest times to the Present Day by John Camden Hotten

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