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Sogn and located in Norway Grove
During the next three years so many immigrants came from Sogn and located in Norway Grove that the settlement came to be called “Sogn.”
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Salvage a larger island named Great
The description of the group in the 'North Atlantic Memoir' is as follows:— 'The Salvages consist of an island named the Ilha Grande, or the Great Salvage, a larger island named Great Piton, and a smaller one called the Little Piton, together with several rocks.
— from The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

such a list is not given
The reason such a list is not given here is that it would require a small volume merely for the names and addresses.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

Sponge and load is now given
“‘Sponge and load,’ is now given—but not by Stentor.
— from In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

she at least is not guilty
Many a mature woman secretly believes that she, at least, is not guilty of harboring anything so "vulgar" as a reproductive instinct, not realizing that if this were so, she would be, in very truth, a freak of nature.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

silver at least if not gold
Which perhaps will be exceedingly regretted by the patrons of the aristocracy of the soul who would have it as an emanation of a deposit in the brain of silver at least, if not gold.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

said at last I never gave
"My dear Tom," he said at last, "I never gave you credit for being a Solomon, but some day your wit may put your father to shame.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

she at least is not guilty
She is weary,—you shall see her: she, at least, is not guilty toward
— from A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev


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