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round one of the knots in the

When it is thought desirable to use more than one fly, bend the loop of [20] your drop fly round one of the knots in the casting-line, and pass the drop through the loop thus bent and draw it tight.
— from Red Palmer: A Practical Treatise on Fly Fishing by James Tayler

remaining objections of the kind indicated they

Prudence and zeal on the part of the commissioners of the prison and the commandant have overcome all difficulties, and if there are to-day any remaining objections of the kind indicated, they are not proclaimed.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

rushed out of the kitchen into the

Her mind filled with worried images, she rushed out of the kitchen into the hall leading to the bathroom.
— from Ye of Little Faith by Rog Phillips

removed out of the kettle into the

The hungry squire would immediately have tried whether they were fit to be removed out of the kettle into the stomach, but was not put to that trouble; for the goatherds took them off the fire, and spread some sheep-skins on the ground, and soon got their rural feast ready; and cheerfully invited his master and him to partake of what they had.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

rushes out of the kitchen into the

Perhaps the fire would not burn, or the bread would not bake, or Martha scalded her hand, or something was burned black that ought only to have been made brown; and Martha lost her patience, and forgetting the proprieties of the occasion, with besweated brow, and perhaps with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the other, she rushes out of the kitchen into the presence of Christ, saying: "Lord, dost Thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone?"
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Rowland one of the kepers in the

s̃. It̃m the xiiij daye to Rowland one of the kepers in the forest of Walthm̄ in Rewarde vj s̃. viij d. It̃m the xv daye paied to my lorde of Rocheford for shoting at hunsden ffyve poundꝭ in Angellꝭ v ƚi
— from The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

Rutter one of the kepers in the

s̃. It̃m the same daye paied to Wiɫɫm Rutter one of the kepers in the fforrest of Wyndeso r for his ffee for one half yere ended at Michelmas after ij d by the daye xxx s̃.
— from The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir

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