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— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Paquita Valdes and other
[The Government Clerks.] LAURENT, Paris, 1815, M. Henri de Marsay's servant, equal to the Frontins of the old regime; was able to obtain for his master, through the mail-carrier, Moinot, the address of Paquita Valdes and other information about her.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Pero volviendo al Orinoco
Pero volviendo al Orinoco, aquí puede Ud. ver la parte navegable de ese río.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

partitions vanishes at once
If we imagine this to be the case, the difficulty of shifting the partitions vanishes at once, if indeed any such difficulty could be supposed under any circumstances to exist.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

pecuniary value and of
[486] If we remember that gunpowder was unknown at the period when these remarkable improvements were executed, and of course that the rock could have been broken only with the chisel and wedge, we must infer that land had at that time a very great pecuniary value, and, of course, that the province, though now exhausted, and almost entirely deserted by man, had once a dense population.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

past voyages and of
From time to time they talk of past voyages, and of those they have known in bygone days, the grandfathers of the small boys running yonder.
— from Afloat (Sur l'eau) by Guy de Maupassant

patrician Venice afloat on
And Padua—Verona—Como, jeweled with stars; and patrician Venice, afloat on her stagnant flood—silent, desolate, haughty—scornful of her humbled state—wrapping herself in memories of her lost fleets, of battle and triumph, and all the pageantry of a glory that is departed.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

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— from The North American Indian, Vol. 1 by Edward S. Curtis

Piers Venables and others
The petitioners solicited help to procure the arrest of a certain Piers Venables and others who, it is stated, "wente into the wodes like as it hadde be Robyn-hode and his meyne."
— from Half-hours with the Highwaymen - Vol 1 Picturesque Biographies and Traditions of the "Knights of the Road" by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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