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of no crime all

He was confounded and dismayed at this message, when he understood it was sent by a soldier; though he was conscious to himself of no crime, all that he had heard of the Bastille appeared to his imagination with aggravated horror, but it was not before I had waited a considerable time that he had resolution enough to bid the servant show me up-stairs.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

own notes Caesar appears

With his own notes Caesar appears to have incorporated the observations of a Greek explorer, by name Posidonius, who travelled in Gaul about fifty years before Caesar carried the Roman arms to the English Channel.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

of native custom and

In working out the rules and regularities of native custom, and in obtaining a precise formula for them from the collection of data and native statements, we find that this very precision is foreign to real life, which never adheres rigidly to any rules.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

of neighboring communities are

iv 3:—"They think it the greatest honor to a nation, to have as wide an extent of vacant land around their dominions as possible; by which it is indicated, that a great number of neighboring communities are unable to withstand them.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

or none could appreciate

If few or none could appreciate the technical merit of his productions, yet there were points in regard to which the opinion of the crowd was as valuable as the refined judgment of the amateur.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

of necessity corporeal and

Now that which is created is of necessity corporeal, and also visible and tangible.
— from Timaeus by Plato

one nation copies another

If any means is once found efficacious in War, it is repeated; one nation copies another, the thing becomes the fashion, and in this manner it comes into use, supported by experience, and takes its place in theory, which contents itself with appealing to experience in general in order to show its origin, but not as a verification of its truth.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

or not cried Amory

“Have a drink or not?” cried Amory rudely.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

of North Carolina are

The railroads of North Carolina are four feet eight and one-half inches gauge.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

of native corn alone

The country all round was composed of level plains covered with grass, and, indeed, in going thither they traveled seven or eight days without wood, and cooked their food with grass and stalks of native corn alone.
— from Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone

of Newnham College and

Miss Fawcett served for some years on the Council of Newnham College, and has maintained a constant interest in its welfare.
— from A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge by Alice Gardner

of natural causes about

In Braddock, for instance, a striker having died of natural causes, about two hundred of his fellows assembled to accompany the body to the cemetery.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

our northern cities and

To-day the Thousand Islands have become famous summer resorts for the denizens of our northern cities; and large and small are studded with attractive cottages and imposing villas; while nature, already so beautiful in its wild state, has been trained into the tamer beauty of modern landscape gardening.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

of North Carolina and

"Mr. Justice Davis delivered the opinion of the court:— "This is a writ of error to the supreme court of the state of North Carolina, and brings up the question whether the recent legislation of the state, concerning the collection of taxes, is, as it affects the plaintiff in error, in violation of that provision of the constitution of the United States which declares that no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

of new conviction and

The recognition of the common relation which all who bear the same relation to Christ bear to one another has more formidable difficulties to encounter to-day than it had in these times when the Church had no stereotyped creeds and no stiffened organizations, and when to the flexibility of its youth were added the warmth of new conviction and the joy of a new field for expanding emotions of brotherly kindness.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren

of no consideration and

Sir Robert Peel, sitting at his ease in Whitehall, esteems straw-plait an article of no consideration; and in revising his tariff, with a view to temporary popularity, he strikes off one-third of the existing import duty, being half-a-crown per pound, and the peasantry of Normandy and Baden come in to supplant the unfortunate Orcadians!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Volume 62, No. 386, December, 1847 by Various

of November came a

On the 14th of November came a pleasant little note from him, which seemed to have been written in better spirits than he had shown of late.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

of nine coral atolls

Tuvalu Geography Location: Oceania, island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia Geographic coordinates: 8 00 S, 178 00 E Map references: Oceania Area: total: 26 sq km land: 26 sq km water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 24 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM exclusive economic zone: 200 NM territorial sea: 12 NM Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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