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platoons each platoon in command of

I mentioned this noble idea to Harris, with enthusiasm, and was about to order the Expedition to form on the Gorner Grat, with their umbrellas, and prepare for flight by platoons, each platoon in command of a guide, when Harris stopped me and urged me not to be too hasty.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 06 by Mark Twain

ports expecting protection in consequence of

The conduct of France in burning our ships, in sequestrating our property entering her ports, expecting protection in consequence of the promised repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees, and the delay in completing a treaty with the American Minister, has excited great sensation, and we hope and trust will call forth from your honorable body such retaliatory measures as may be best calculated to procure justice.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

property eventually passing into control of

The Overland had become a valuable property, eventually passing into control of another publisher.
— from A Backward Glance at Eighty Recollections & comment by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Murdock

pieces each piece is capable of

the different groups merging by insensible shades into one another: thus zoophytes partake partly of the vegetable and partly of the animal, and serve as an intermedium between them; that plants are inferior to animals in this, that they do not possess a single principle of life or soul, but many subordinate ones, as is shown by the circumstance that, when they are cut to pieces, each piece is capable of perfect or independent growth or life.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

procul este profani is chiselled on

To me, and to all like me, " Procul, procul, este, profani " is chiselled on every stone!—a singular monument of the priest-hating propensities of the old French Revolutionists.
— from American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies

principes et post ipsos cæteri ordinati

Post regem cum reuerentia accedunt, et vnguntur Barones, principes, et post ipsos cæteri ordinati
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

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