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snorting car right into their hamlet

What a sensation we created-a group piloted by an American and pioneering in a snorting car right into their hamlet fastness, invading the ancient privacy and sanctity!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

She could remain in the house

She could remain in the house, for the mortgage was paid off, though the government and not poor Solomon Isaacs had the mortgage-money in its grip for the present.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Schwartz came roaring into the house

The King of the Golden River had hardly made the extraordinary exit related in the last chapter, before Hans and Schwartz came roaring into the house, very savagely drunk.
— from The King of the Golden River; or, the Black Brothers: A Legend of Stiria. by John Ruskin

sea come right into the heart

Little arms of the sea come right into the heart of Copenhagen, so there really are boats and bridges wherever one looks.
— from Little Greta of Denmark by Bernadine Bailey

Schwartz came roaring into the house

THEREIN The King of the Golden River had hardly made the extraordinary exit related in the last chapter, before Hans and Schwartz came roaring into the house very savagely drunk.
— from The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin

she could reconcile it to her

“Papa seems to feel this engagement more than all his troubles, and, knowing by sad experience it is useless to expostulate with Alfred, I wrote a long and faithful letter to Julia just before luncheon, putting it to her as a Christian whether she could reconcile it to her profession to set a son against his father, and marry him in open defiance.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

sanguinary conflicts recorded in the history

From an ignorant and sensual soldiery, excited to madness by a prolonged resistance, and by one of the most sanguinary conflicts recorded in the history of sieges, forbearance could hardly be expected.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

short carbine resting in the hollow

Farther off, upon a little rocky ledge, the erect figure of the sentry, with his short carbine resting in the hollow of his arm, was seen slowly pacing in measured tread, or standing for a moment silently, as he looked upon the fair and tranquil
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 by Charles James Lever

she can return it to her

The money can go to Lavinia, and she can return it to her grandmother Lovell.
— from The Staying Guest by Carolyn Wells

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