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our lives for a city that

But we left behind us a city that was a city no longer, and staked our lives for a city that had an existence only in desperate hope, and so bore our full share in your deliverance and in ours.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

of Life for a cock the

(e) Last they came to a high wall, which surrounds the land of Life, for a cock the woman brought with her, whose neck she wrung and tossed over this wall, came to life and crowed merrily.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

of London founded a chantry there

John Crolys and Thomas Pike, citizens of London, founded a chantry there 1388.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

our left flank and captured the

On the night of the 18th, the enemy crossed the mountains which separate the branches of the Shenandoah, forded the North Fork, and early on the morning of the 19th, under cover of the darkness and the fog, surprised and turned our left flank, and captured the batteries which enfiladed our whole line.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

of land forming a community taking

"We were talking of concerted effort," interposed [124] Maverick,—"purchasing a large tract of land, forming a community, taking different kinds of workmen, and making a success of it.
— from Hope Mills; Or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda M. Douglas

of life forego And count their

Old Barnard's towers are purple still, To those that gaze from Toller Hill; Distant and high the tower of Bowes Like steel upon the anvil glows; And Stanmore's ridge, behind that lay, Rich with the spoils of parting day, In crimson and in gold arrayed, Streaks yet awhile the closing shade; Then slow resigns to darkening heaven The tints which brighter hours had given Thus, aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er Till Memory lends her light no more."
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

our left flank and captured the

Filled with this determination he moved his whole force on the night of October 18th, crossed the mountain in single file which separated the branches of the Shenandoah, forded the north fork, and early on the morning of the 19th, under cover of the darkness and the fog, surprised and turned our left flank, and captured the batteries that infiladed our whole line, some 24 in all; the men were aroused from slumber only to find the enemy in their rear.
— from Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers by J. Newton (John Newton) Terrill

of linen fine and coarse the

The exquisite toilet table; the Dresden mirror, with its delicate china frame muslined and ribboned; the great ivory-handled brushes, the array of cut-glass gold-mounted bottles, and all the artillery of beauty; the baths of various shapes and sizes, in which she laved her fair body; the bath sheets, and the profusion of linen, fine and coarse; the bed, with its frilled sheets, its huge frilled pillows, and its eider-down quilt, covered with bright purple silk.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

or leasehold for a certain term

One of the very first resolutions passed at the convention read as follows: “ Resolved , That the Protestant inhabitants of this country are required by the statute law to carry arms and to learn the use of them,” etc.; and, lest any doubt should remain of the bigotry and narrow-mindedness which pervaded the representatives of the Volunteers, the plan of reform, as drawn up by Flood and subsequently adopted, was made to read thus: “That every Protestant freeholder or leaseholder, possessing a freehold or leasehold for a certain term of years of forty shillings' value, resident in any city or borough, should be entitled to vote at the election of a member for the same.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

only live for a considerable time

Upon this diet it will not only live for a considerable time and become extremely tame, but lay its eggs regularly from year to year.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

our left front and connected the

13 While the heavy guns were at work on the breach, Adrian Hope, with the 53rd, cleared off a body of the enemy who had collected on our left front, and connected the barracks with the main attack by a line of skirmishers.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

one looking for a chance to

More likely it was some one looking for a chance to steal.
— from Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods by Ralph Henry Barbour

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