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of Launch or Vessel

When Bonnet came back to Topsail Inlet, he found that Teach and his Gang were gone, and that they had taken all the Money, small Arms and Effects of Value out of the great Ship, and set ashore on a small sandy Island above a League from the Main, seventeen Men, no doubt with a Design they should perish, there being no Inhabitant, or Provisions to subsist withal, nor any Boat or Materials to build or make any kind of Launch or Vessel, to escape from that desolate Place: They remained there two Nights and one Day, without Subsistance, or the least Prospect of any, expecting nothing else but a lingering Death; when to their inexpressable Comfort, they saw Redemption at Hand; for Major Bonnet happening to get Intelligence of their being there, by two of the Pyrates who had escaped Teach ’s Cruelty, and had got to a poor little Village at the upper End of the Harbour, sent his Boat to make Discovery of the Truth of the Matter, which the poor Wretches seeing, made a signal to them, and they were all brought on Board Bonnet ’s Sloop.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

or land of virtue

“To the south of Sumeru are the mountains Himavan, Hemakūta, and Nishadha; to the north are the countries Nīl, Sveta, and Sringi. Between Hemāchal and the ocean the land is Bhāratkhand, called Kukarma Bhūmi ( land of vice , opposed to Āryāvarta, or land of virtue ), in which the seven grand ranges are Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Suktimat, Riksha, Vindhya, and Paripatra”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

or layers of various

Bands or layers of various colours blended together, the base generally being chalcedony, and this mixed with variable proportions of jasper, amethyst, quartz, opal, heliotrope, and carnelian.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

O Lady of virtue

When I shall be in presence of my Lord, Full often will I praise thee unto him.' Then paused she, and thereafter I began: 'O Lady of virtue, thou alone through whom The human race exceedeth all contained Within the heaven that has the lesser circles, So grateful unto me is thy commandment, To obey, if 'twere already done, were late; No farther need'st thou ope to me thy wish.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

of lace of very

Point-de-vice was originally the name of a kind of lace of very fine pattern.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

or line of vision

[B456] for the eyes or line of vision to veer off.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

October like other voluptuaries

He mimics the tree-frog's cry, and migrates after October, like other voluptuaries, who must have the round year warm, and fruit and eggs always in market.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

of Leicester often visited

Strolling players, chartered by Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester, often visited Stratford and the surrounding towns, infusing into the young, and even the old, a desire for that innocent fun of tragic or comic philosophy that wandering minstrels and circus exhibitions generate in the human heart.
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

of land or vineyards

In order that there may not be so many perjuries, if any member of the family has done some wrong to a fellow-member in the matter of land, or vineyards, or any other less important thing, and the case has been brought before the local official, we desire that the local official shall, with the aid of his fellows, decide the case without having anyone take an oath.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

of Luitward of Vercelli

Do people still speak of Luitward of Vercelli?"
— from Ekkehard: A Tale of the Tenth Century. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Joseph Victor von Scheffel

or lost or vaguely

And then again he saw them, nearer now, more distinct; they were entering the temple; they were close at hand; triumphant of mien, assured, so full of life!—he could laugh to think that he had had a dream, or had heard somehow, that they were dead or lost or vaguely gone.
— from The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree

our loss of voluntary

It is not, I think, owing chiefly, as Upham supposes, to our loss of voluntary power and control over our thoughts during sleep, though it is quite true that we have no such control.
— from Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will by Joseph Haven

or loss of vision

AMAUROSIS (Gr. for ``blinding,''), a term for ``deprivation of sight,'' limited chiefly to those forms of defect or loss of vision which are caused by diseases not directly involving the eye.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

of laudanum or veronal

"Did—did they cut him up, to see if he'd taken morphia, or an overdose of laudanum or veronal or something?
— from The Judgment House by Gilbert Parker

old lady of very

There was one little, prim old lady, of very smiling and good-humoured appearance, who came sidling up to me from the end of a long passage, and with a curtsey of inexpressible condescension, propounded this unaccountable inquiry: ‘Does Pontefract still flourish, sir, upon the soil of England?’
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

old lines of vigorous

He is transplanted, and the sap within him has long been diverted into other than the old lines of vigorous growth.
— from Impressions of Theophrastus Such by George Eliot

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