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putting a lightning end to the enemies
This is Abe Pike’s Bark, possessing properties which will alleviate the sufferings of the human race by putting a lightning end to the enemies of the human kind.
— from Tales from the Veld by Ernest Glanville

possessed also large estates to the east
I have already given an account of the family of highest rank, including the Rajas of Palpa, Tanahung, Rising, Ghiring, and Gajarkot; because this family possessed also large estates to the east of Nepal Proper.
— from An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal And of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha by Francis Hamilton

pigeons and less elongated than the eggs
Its eggs are much larger than those of pigeons, and less elongated than the eggs of the terekay.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

present and listened eagerly to the explanation
" Joyfully the Dauphin received the beautiful present and listened eagerly to the explanation of how to play the new game.
— from Ten Boys from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

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