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soon as she sounded a revolt in
6 As soon as she sounded a revolt in the ears of Zeno, he fled with precipitation into the mountains of Isauria, and her brother Basiliscus, already infamous by his African expedition, 7 was unanimously proclaimed by the servile senate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

soon as she sounded a revolt in
As soon as she sounded a revolt in the ears of Zeno, he fled with precipitation into the mountains of Isauria, and her brother Basiliscus, already infamous by his African expedition, was unanimously proclaimed by the servile senate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Samaria and smote Shallum and reigned in
The last mention of Tirzah in Scripture history is in connection with Menahem, who went from Tirzah to Samaria, “and smote Shallum, and reigned in his stead.”
— from Bible Characters by Dwight Lyman Moody

sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in
“Several, in their books, have many sarcastical and spiteful strokes at religion in general; while others make themselves pleasant with the principles of the Christian.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

since affected so signal a revolution in
All eyes were now fixed on the first Indian in New York who had tasted the poison which has since affected so signal a revolution in the condition of the native Americans.
— from Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings by Nathaniel Parker Willis

soul as she soothed and rocked into
The iron of her new chain bade fair to eat into her very soul as she soothed and rocked into forgetfulness of [161] his troubles the beloved little cause of all her perplexities.
— from To the Highest Bidder by Florence Morse Kingsley


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