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spectators by the

Ptolemy, mentioned before, whom he invited from his kingdom, and received with great honours, he suddenly put to death, for no other reason, but because he observed that upon entering the theatre, at a public exhibition, he attracted the eyes of all the spectators, by the splendour of his purple robe.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

swords but the

The author of the Yyu (1543-1544), in enumerating the tribes inhabiting Mongolia and the adjacent countries, mentions the Barhu, as a strong tribe, able to supply up to several tens of thousands (?) of warriors, armed with steel swords; but the country inhabited by them is not indicated.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

sandwiched between the

The diary shows that they had many delightful visits among friends and many good times sandwiched between the disagreeable features of their trip, and that everywhere they roused the community to the highest pitch on the slavery question.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

sacrifice beside the

Since the soma sacrifice, beside the cult of fire, forms a main feature in the ritual of the Rigveda , the god Soma is naturally one of its chief deities.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

swings back to

As the pendulum swings back, to the left, under the influence of gravity, a is raised and frees the tooth.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

supplanted by the

I have also shown that the intermediate varieties which probably at first existed in the intermediate zones, would be liable to be supplanted by the allied forms on either hand; for the latter, from existing in greater numbers, would generally be modified and improved at a quicker rate than the intermediate varieties, which existed in lesser numbers; so that the intermediate varieties would, in the long run, be supplanted and exterminated.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

see between the

In the far north-east sky he could see between the pillars a level streak of light.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

sa batu That

Nagangad nang tagáa kay nasángit sa batu, That fish hook is bent because it got snagged in a rock.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

States but the

In the month of March, 1887, in which occurred the terrible Bussey Bridge disaster, near Boston, 25 passengers were killed in the United States; but the same month recorded 34 employees killed.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke

SPAIN BEFORE THE

SPAIN BEFORE THE ARMADA 2.
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot

strolled back to

When I rose from the table and strolled back to where we had left the "auto," it was with the knowledge that my long search had not been in vain.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

softened by the

Shrieks, yells of defiance, shouts of triumph, howls of rage or of pain, all softened by the distance, and all in their unison sounding appallingly as they were borne through the gloom of the fog.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

sea bottoms that

The things which the Stygian darkness hid from my objective eye could not have been half so wonderful as the pictures which my imagination wrought as it conjured to life again the ancient peoples of this dying world and set them once more to the labours, the intrigues, the mysteries and the cruelties which they had practised to make their last stand against the swarming hordes of the dead sea bottoms that had driven them step by step to the uttermost pinnacle of the world where they were now intrenched behind an impenetrable barrier of superstition.
— from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

stage before the

A. Younger stage before the definite establishment of the notochord.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

small book the

In this small book the barest outline of the parts of flowers and fruit and of their uses can be given.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

status by the

The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service.
— from The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White

startled by this

The young man, Hollins afterward said, seemed much startled by this news, and his countenance flushed and paled in quick succession.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852 by Various

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