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of means and had a name

So the beggar in the ballad had come home; and when I lay down that night on the kitchen chests, I was a man of means and had a name in the country.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

on mony a heid and never

I ha' seen the clods piled on mony a heid, and never felt the saut tear in my e'en.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

of men and horses and notes

In the same year Herchmer calls attention to the highly pleasing fact that the introduction of the telephone would lead to an enormous saving of men and horses, and notes the able and diplomatic way in which Superintendent Steele, assisted by Inspectors Wood, Huot and Surgeon Powell, had quieted matters in the Kootenay country where Chief Isadore's attitude had discouraged settlement.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

of Mr Adams had agreed not

The officials at Washington, who were friends of Mr. Adams, had agreed not to participate in the inaugural ceremonies, and the only uniformed company of light infantry, commanded by Colonel Seaton, of the National Intelligencer , had declined to offer its services as an escort.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore

of mind and had attached no

She was not of a philosophic turn of mind, and had attached no deep meaning to Stephen's jest—“If young people will reveal their ankles, they'll soon have no ankles to reveal.”
— from Fraternity by John Galsworthy

other man and had a neat

I buried him near the other man, and had a neat inscription, with the name of the individual, his ship and age, placed over each.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

of Mormon and hence accorded no

The early anti-Mormon writers generally assumed a conspiracy between Joseph Smith and the Witnesses to the Book of Mormon, and hence accorded no importance [ 10 ] to the testimony of either group—the Three or the Eight.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

of men answered him again Nestor

Then Agamemnon king of men answered him again: "Nestor, for that they are warring by the rearmost ships, and the well-builded wall hath availed not, nor the trench, whereat the Achaians endured so much labour, hoping in their hearts that it should be the unbroken bulwark of the ships, and of their own bodies—such it seemeth must be the will of Zeus supreme, [that the Achaians should perish here nameless far from Argos].
— from The Iliad by Homer

o my ain hoose an noo

Sae first ye turnt me oot o' my ain hoose, an' noo ye turn me oot o' yours; an' what's left ye to turn me oot o' but the hoose o' the Lord?
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

over mercury and has a normal

An important proof in favour of the type PX 5 is exhibited by phosphorus pentafluoride PF 5 , obtained by Thorpe as a colourless gas which only corrodes glass after the lapse of time; it may be kept over mercury, and has a normal density.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

our march and halted at noon

, we renewed our march, and halted at noon at Blain's Cross Roads.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

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