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piled up from floor to

In this part of the building, faggots of firewood are seen piled up from floor to roof, and secured in their place by loops of rattan.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

park under franchise from the

The Glacier Park Transport Co. is operated in the park under franchise from the Department of the Interior.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

posts under fire from the

Then, Pencroft and Ayrton, abandoning their posts, under fire from the dozen muskets, ran across the islet at full speed, jumped into their boat, crossed the channel at the moment the second boat reached the southern end, and ran to hide themselves in the Chimneys.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

plain Unbroken forehead from the

It makes an even face Of mountain and of plain, — Unbroken forehead from the east Unto the east again.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

pull up for further talk

"Give ye good-day," said he; but he scarcely looked at them, nor did he pull up for further talk or greeting.
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

preach us Freed from the

how the synod is met There of the planets to preach us:— Freed from the earth’s oubliette, See how the blossoms beseech us!— Were it not well to forget Winter and death as they teach us?
— from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5) New world idylls and poems of love by Madison Julius Cawein

pick up fit for their

Whilst I have been in these parts I have not expended my time idly; for in Gaol and elsewhere I have learned most knacks in playing I have ever heard of, and have practiced them in many places very advantagiously, for I was a while of a Gang that stroled all the Countrey over, to all the great Fairs in England, resorting thither as constantly, as such Tradesmen who make it their business to observe them, exercising their cheating faculties on all they can pick up fit for their company: the reason why they go three or four in Company, is, that if any contest in playing should arise, or any opposition should be made, they may be the better able to defend their Roguery.
— from The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Fourth Part by Francis Kirkman

put up false flags to

There are bad men on the seas who put up false flags to lure ships out of their course, and then rob and kill the crew.
— from The Swiss Family Robinson, Told in Words of One Syllable by Lucy Aikin

parted us forever from the

The following circumstances, which parted us forever from the train which father had led through so many difficulties, were told me by my sister, Mrs. Elitha C. Wilder , now of Bruceville, California: Our five Donner wagons, and Mrs. Wolfinger's wagon, were a day or more behind the train, and between twelve and sixteen miles from the spot where we later made our winter camp, when an accident happened which nearly cost us your life, and indirectly prevented our rejoining the train.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

prevent us from finishing the

It is a cleverly thought-out scheme to make us lose three or four days of work, which will be enough to prevent us from finishing the road on time.
— from The Young Engineers in Colorado; Or, At Railroad Building in Earnest by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

picking up food from the

In addition, there hung about the fort the usual habitués of a Northern fur post,—young clerks from England, who had come out for a year's experience in the wilds; underpaid artisans, striving to mend their fortunes by illicit trade; hunters and coureurs and voyageurs , living like Indians but with a strain of white blood that forever distinguished them from their comrades; stately Indian sachems, stalking about the fort with whiffs of contempt from their long calumets for all this white-man luxury; and a ragamuffin brigade,—squaws, youngsters, and beggars,—who subsisted by picking up food from the waste heap of the fort.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut

prevent us from feeling the

Shall reason stand in the way, and tell us that we ought not to like what we know we do like, and prevent us from feeling the full effect of this complicated exertion of art?
— from Sir Joshua Reynolds' Discourses Edited, with an Introduction, by Helen Zimmern by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

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