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on Real Estate as delivered

But in nothing was he more clearly revealed as the Prominent Citizen than in his lecture on “Brass Tacks Facts on Real Estate,” as delivered before the class in Sales Methods at the Zenith Y.M.C.A.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

of regular elevations and depressions

Just here the land was rolling—a grand sweep of regular elevations and depressions as far as the eye could reach—like the stately heave and swell of the ocean’s bosom after a storm.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

other rooms empty and deserted

Then I rushed up the stairs, only to find two other rooms empty and deserted at the top.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

observations required especially angular distance

Iridescent Clouds .—Not yet understood; observations required, especially angular distance from the sun.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

of Rutland exhibited a document

At the Derby Congress of the British Archæological Association, the Duke of Rutland exhibited a document of which the following notice by Mr. H. N. Black is made in the Journal of their Transactions (vol.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

of razors etc are destroyed

It is probable that the edges of razors, etc, are destroyed by a sort of acid deposited there by the cockroaches, similar to that which exudes from the egg; however, there is no gainsaying the fact.
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

of Royal Engineers and departmental

On that date it was announced that two companies of Royal Engineers and departmental corps with reserves of supplies and ammunition were being dispatched.
— from The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle

of real estate all down

And he has property in mines, and cattle, and land, and lots of real estate, all down the Pacific coast.
— from Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance by Amelia E. Barr

of reproduced experience and discuss

Let us turn to the fragmentary nature of reproduced experience and discuss its significance.
— from Psychology: an elementary text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus

on red earth and divided

A stranger making his way about the brown streets, neat brick and corrugated iron buildings set down on red earth, and divided into alternate avenues and streets—'little New York,' said a policeman complacently—a stranger pauses to ask himself if he dreams, or if the Household Brigade, the Bachelors' Club, and the Foreign Office have depleted themselves of their members, and sent them, disguised in broad-brimmed hats and riding-breeches, to hold the capital of Matabeleland.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

of R Eckman and D

[154] Courtesy of R. Eckman and D. M. Stewart, University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
— from Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. (Fairfax Throckmorton) Proudfit

of rubies emeralds and diamonds

Sarah was in so much haste to arrive at the bottom of the coffer, that she hastily scattered over the table these jewel-cases, splendidly filled with necklaces, bracelets, tiaras of rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, which sparkled with a thousand fires.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

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