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somewhere else and laid a billet

Harald then went away to sleep somewhere else, and laid a billet of wood in his place.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

shall escape at last although because

None shall escape at last, although, because God's judgment is a while delayed, they may Dream that it never will descend on them.
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

sky enveloping all like a blood

In these later days, whenever I look back on that strange adventure, the first thing I see pictured in my mind's eye is that Dutch harbour with its shiny green wharves on one hand, its desolate, wind-tossed cocoa-nut trees upon the shore on the other, and that marvellously beautiful sky enveloping all like a blood-red mantle.
— from A Crime of the Under-seas by Guy Boothby

she exclaimed at last and began

"Ah, I have it," she exclaimed at last, and began:— "'We learn from unimpeachable authority that the Hon. —— ——, who represents a district of our city in the State legislature, was yesterday united to the Quateroon daughter of the late Gustave Almont.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

shall embrace and love and be

May the merciful God of heaven and of earth, hasten the happy period, when the Gipsies of this, and of all other countries, shall embrace, and love, and be obedient to the Gospel of the gracious Redeemer!
— from The Gipsies' Advocate Or, Observations on the Origin, Character, Manners, and Habits of the English Gipsies by James Crabb

sort English and Latin and both

But Johnson, in his two quarto volumes, gives only two words of this sort, English and Latin ; and both of these he calls adjectives : "ENGLISH, adj.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

springing effort a large and bony

Already had he closed upon his victim, while with a springing effort a large and bony hand was extended to secure his shoulder in his grasp.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

so extensive and lucrative a branch

[Pg 21] The cultivation of the sugar cane, now so extensive and lucrative a branch of business, did not begin to attract the attention of agriculturalists till 1751.
— from Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Benjamin Moore Norman

social events and largely attended by

For many years their receptions were social events and largely attended by prominent people.
— from Jersey City and Its Historic Sites by Harriet Phillips Eaton

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