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of relief Leo exclaimed Narrow

With a sense of relief, Leo exclaimed, "Narrow escape, that!"
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton

of receiving Lady Elizabeth Norris

She was hardly less sensible than her somewhat proud aunt of the pleasure which a reunion with her Cheltenham friends, under circumstances, so changed, would bring; and her dreams were of receiving Lady Elizabeth Norris and her niece in a beautiful palace on the shores of a lovely lake, while Colonel Hubert stood smiling by to watch the meeting.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

of rather larger extent near

I recollect only one little flat piece near Port Famine, and another of rather larger extent near Goeree Road.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

old Roman law emphyteusis now

As in old Roman law, emphyteusis , now spelt emfiteuse , means the possession of rights over another person's land, capable of transmission by inheritance; and to-day, as under the Romans, the holder of such rights is called the emphyteuta , or emfiteuta .
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

only resist long enough not

[Pg 284] Get on as quick as you can.' 'Do not be alarmed, Madame; I shall only resist long enough not to make myself depreciated.'
— from The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 Boule de Suif and Other Stories by Guy de Maupassant

of rich loam especially notable

It comprised the broad alluvial bottoms, together with occasional hill districts of rich loam, especially notable among the latter of which were those lying about Natchez and Vicksburg.
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

overhanging rock like eagles nests

In the northernmost nook of the cleared field, the negro houses, as usual surrounded with palm, star-apple, and orange trees, were clustered below an overhanging rock like eagles' nests, with blue threads of smoke rising up from them in still spiral jets, until it reached the top of the breezy cliff that sheltered them, when it suddenly blew off, and was dissipated.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

of rural life evidently noticed

Randolph Caldecott, that prince of illustrators of rural life, evidently noticed the characteristic attitudes of trees; look at the sympathetic dejection displayed by the two old pollard willows in his sketch of the maiden all forlorn, in The House that Jack Built .
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory

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