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over were not economical ships to

It was soon found that full-rigged ships of 2000 tons and 303 over were not economical ships to work, and thus it was that the four-mast barque came into being.
— from The Colonial Clippers by Basil Lubbock

of whom nothing else seems to

In estimating the value of this piece of evidence it is necessary to remark, in the first place, that the authority is no longer that of Aristoxenus, but of a certain Lysis, of whom nothing else seems to be known.
— from The Modes of Ancient Greek Music by D. B. (David Binning) Monro

of whom nothing ever seemed to

The grave itself was not more secretive than that quiet schemer, of whom nothing ever seemed to be known.
— from Plotting in Pirate Seas by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

one who never even speaks to

'I think, Robert,' answered Charlotte, 'it would be very foolish in you to take so much trouble for one who never even speaks to you.'
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

one would never even suspect that

From the exterior, one would never even suspect that this house contained two complete suites of rooms.
— from Bennett's Small House Catalog, 1920 by Inc. Ray H. Bennett Lumber Co.

One was not enough she thought

One was not enough; she thought she herself could eat all fifteen of the big fish if only she had them—but after she caught one more, hunger triumphed.
— from We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard

Old Walsingham Norfolk England Sir Thomas

In 1658, when several collections of cinerary urns were discovered in Old Walsingham, Norfolk, England, Sir Thomas Browne, a learned physician, came forward with a brilliant dissertation on cremation, which still holds its rank among standard English literature.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

of which nobody ever sees the

In the course of the year we find the young lord occupying something of a neutral ground in the House, and objecting to the profusion of the Irish government in grants of money for public improvements; those grants which we see still about to be given, which are always clamoured for by the Irish, for which they never are grateful, of which nobody ever sees the result, and for which nobody ever seems to be the better.
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 by Various

occasions we narrowly escaped splitting the

On one or two occasions we narrowly escaped splitting the sides of our boats on snags of trees which the beavers had buried in the bottom of the stream.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb

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