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often therefore hath the country suffered

This country and land of Jerusalem hath been in many divers nations’ hands, and often, therefore, hath the country suffered much tribulation for the sin of the p. 50 people that dwell there.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

Or to hit the case still

Or, to hit the case still more nearly, he felt the same compunction with a bawd, when some poor innocent, whom she hath ensnared into her hands, falls into fits at the first proposal of what is called seeing company.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

opposite the house that contained Sue

Often at this hour after dusk he would enter the silent Close, and stand opposite the house that contained Sue, and watch the shadows of the girls' heads passing to and fro upon the blinds, and wish he had nothing else to do but to sit reading and learning all day what many of the thoughtless inmates despised.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

of the house The cedar spreads

We came upon an old cedar tree, which stood at one end of the house— “The cedar spreads his dark-green layers of shade.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

of this haze they could see

Out of this haze they could see running men.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

of the Huns their close sleeves

Insolent with royal favor, the blues affected to strike terror by a peculiar and Barbaric dress, the long hair of the Huns, their close sleeves and ample garments, a lofty step, and a sonorous voice.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of three hundred thousand captives sixty

The same spirit revived under the successor of Hassan; it was finally quelled by the activity of Musa and his two sons; but the number of the rebels may be presumed from that of three hundred thousand captives; sixty thousand of whom, the caliph's fifth, were sold for the profit of thee public treasury.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of three hundred thousand captives sixty

The same spirit revived under the successor of Hassan: it was finally quelled by the activity of Musa and his two sons; but the number of the rebels may be presumed from that of three hundred thousand captives; sixty thousand of whom, the caliph's fifth, were sold for the profit of the public treasury.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of the hills that could sustain

The pressures that must be developed were easily conceived; correspondingly evident became the 126 strength of the hills that could sustain them as if they had been but the stroking of a hand.
— from Switzerland by Frank Fox

One told him the cock shall

When Peter said "I will lay down my life for thy sake" (John xiii:30), the omniscient One told him, "the cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice." How sorrowful this little company must have been!
— from Studies in Prophecy by Arno Clemens Gaebelein

of their house they could see

Before they were out of sight of their house they could see smoke and flames already issuing from it.
— from Scouting for Girls Adapted from Girl Guiding by Baden-Powell of Gilwell, Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Baron

of them have the chimney supported

Most of them have the chimney supported by a crooked piece of birch wood coming down from the roof and hooked underneath the projecting angle of stonework, but in some there is instead an upright iron bar from the hearth.
— from Three in Norway, by Two of Them by Walter J. Clutterbuck

of that hill to cautiously see

As a matter of fact, early evening—a cold, biting winter evening—was settling about them when they finally climbed to the crest of that hill to cautiously "see what they could see."
— from The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service by James R. Driscoll

ought to have the composition SiH

The first hydrate of an alcoholic character ought to have the composition SiH 3 (OH); the second hydrate SiH 2 (OH) 2 ; the third, SiH(OH) 3 ; [11 bis] and the last, Si(OH) 4 .
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

other times having their cusps sharp

To others he appeared as a globe with crescents (shape of new moon) sometimes detached, and at other times having their cusps (sharp points) meet on the edge of the planet.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, January 1885, No. 4 by Chautauqua Institution

order to hold the course safely

The rudder creaked as the pilot moved it to and fro, and only his voice was heard as, very softly, he ordered one oarsman after another to pull or back-water in order to hold the course safely between the shallows and avoid the shifting sands, whose presence, in the darkness, no eye could descry.
— from Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Tom Bevan

of the hold that civil service

During the great political contest I addressed several quite large and intelligent audiences, and no one who did not has or can have the slightest idea of the hold that civil service reform had upon the very souls of our people.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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