"onami" hidden in books

of Nature and Man in

Looking back down the hill, the view presented the grandest spectacle of Nature and Man, in combination, that I have ever seen.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

off neighed after me in

But the first, who was a dapple gray, observing me to steal off, neighed after me in so expressive a tone, that I fancied myself to understand what he meant; whereupon I turned back, and came near to him to expect his farther commands: but concealing my fear as much as I could, for I began to be in some pain how this adventure might terminate; and the reader will easily believe I did not much like my present situation.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

of Napoleon and maybe I

As a daughter of Saxony she was a great admirer of Napoleon, and maybe I am so still.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

of Napoleon and Moreau in

Every one will be convinced of this by carefully studying the interesting campaigns of the [Pg 163] Archduke Charles, Suwaroff, and Massena in 1799, and those of Napoleon and Moreau in 1800.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

of Negroes and Mexican Indians

It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

of nothing and mean I

I shan’t again be troubled by things that come out of nothing, and mean I don’t know what.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

older now a man in

He was older now; a man in the prime of life.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

of nearly a million in

“The Spada family was one of the oldest and most powerful families of the fifteenth century; and in those times, when other opportunities for investment were wanting, such accumulations of gold and jewels were by no means rare; there are at this day Roman families perishing of hunger, though possessed of nearly a million in diamonds and jewels, handed down by entail, and which they cannot touch.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

of number and magnitude in

In the first place, the vast expenditures of the war, the inflation of prices, and the depreciation of currency, leading up to a complete instability of the unit of value, have made us lose all sense of number and magnitude in matters of finance.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

of numbers and measurements in

His has, therefore, inserted plenty of numbers and measurements in his embryological works, and given them an air of “exact” scholarship by putting in a quantity of mathematical tables.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

old negro admitted me into

About midnight I reached Croft's Gulley, where, after knocking for some time, a very sulky old negro admitted me into a stable while I baited my mare.
— from Confessions Of Con Cregan, the Irish Gil Blas by Charles James Lever

one night after midnight I

Awaking one night after midnight I heard the unusual sound of voices in earnest conversation in the room below; this went on until I fell asleep again.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

of newspapers and might if

Later on I reflected that two gentlemen like my friends could not do any good if they foregathered and personated correspondents of newspapers, and might, if they blackmailed one of the little rat-trap States of Central India or Southern Rajputana, get themselves into serious difficulties.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

or narrow and minuscular in

Under the Revolution and the Directory the fashion of Muffs was extremes, either broad as little barrels, or narrow and minuscular; in other respects the fashion varied infinitely, and we must come to the Restoration to find the first chinchilla Muffs which harmonised with the velvet witchouras.
— from The Sunshade, the Glove, the Muff by Octave Uzanne

outsides nearly always mucked it

“And when we did let it out, the outsides nearly always mucked it.”
— from The Gold Bat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

of nearly a mile in

the missouri just above this hill makes a bend to the South where it lies a smoth even and unruffled sheet of water of nearly a mile in width bearing on it's watry bosome vast flocks of geese which feed at pleasure in the delightfull pasture on either border.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

of nature are more impressive

Few scenes of nature are more impressive than a forest at night.
— from The Lost Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis

of November and marched into

After a voyage of eleven weeks in boats up the river, the battalion landed at Cawnpore on the 29th of November, and marched into the spacious barracks on an elevated site at that place.
— from Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755 and of its subsequent services to 1848 by Richard Cannon

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