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smoke issuing from the

Ten minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

shut in from the

But if you invert a jar full of water over the pail, they will rise and remain lodged beneath its bottom, shut in from the outer air, although a slight deflection from their course at the outset, or a re-descent towards the rim of the jar when they found their upward course impeded, would easily have set them free.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

same immunity from the

Now let me advise you to purchase the same immunity from the ravages of time by following my example?
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

special inspiration from the

Two wizards, supposed to have received a special inspiration from the Mura-muras, are bled by an old and influential man with a sharp flint; and the blood, drawn from their arms below the elbow, is made to flow on the other men of the tribe, who sit huddled together in the hut.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

some into falsehoods that

In the home of the witty abbe dwelt incessant laughter; there all the items of the day had their source and were so quickly transformed, misrepresented, metamorphosed, some into epigrams, some into falsehoods, that every one was anxious to pass an hour with little Scarron, listening to what he said, reporting it to others.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

shall I forget those

Never shall I forget those I heard, at this hour, in Languedoc!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

seek inspiration from the

The Earth as an artistic cult has had its day, and the literature of the near future will probably ignore the country and seek inspiration from the town.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

sucked in from the

It was his mother's greedy ears that sucked in, from the women-kind of these magistrates and wealthy men, how highly
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

spreading it far to

The sun had set, and the mist that veiled the horizon had caught its last rays, holding the light lingeringly, fondly, in its folds and spreading it far to the north and south in a soft splendor of color that no other season can show.
— from The Land of Long Ago by Eliza Calvert Hall

semaphore intended for the

Charlie went with his men for a few minutes to help to put up the semaphore intended for the Residency to telegraph with Allum Bagh; the enemy sent a number of round shot and shell in, during the evening and night.
— from A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857 by Maria Germon

single iota from the

We must bend, temporize, and frequently withdraw, doctrines, which, invariable in their truth, the prejudices of the time will not invariably allow, and even relinquish a faint hope of obtaining a great good, for the certainty of obtaining a lesser; yet in the science of private morals, which relate for the main part to ourselves individually, we have no right to deviate one single iota from the rule of our conduct.
— from Pelham — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

separates it from the

to the Caspian, in two parallel chains, with tablelands between, bounded on the S. by the valley of the Kur, which separates it from the tableland of Armenia; snow-line higher than that of the Alps; has fewer and smaller glaciers; has no active volcanoes, though abundant evidence of volcanic action.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

seem in fact to

They seem in fact to have been soon admitted by the baronage to an almost equal position with themselves, whether as legislators or counsellors of the Crown.
— from History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by John Richard Green

since I first took

Smith is the best servant I’ve struck since I first took to employing a hired help.”
— from The Island Mystery by George A. Birmingham

shut in from the

A tunnel scooped out of the damp, dewy soil could scarcely have been more absolutely shut in from the sunshine, scarcely could have been stiller or cooler, or more withdrawn from the blazing noonday, with its noises and rejoicings, than this narrow sombre avenue.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

saw it from the

Joanna speaks of a great old castle, and I think I saw it from the road.
— from The Laird of Norlaw; A Scottish Story by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

saving it from the

"It is useless," writes de Clieu in his letter to the Année Littéraire , "to recount in detail the infinite care that I was obliged to bestow upon this delicate plant during a long voyage, and the difficulties I had in saving it from the hands of a man who, basely jealous of the joy I was about to taste through being of service to my country, and being unable to get this coffee plant away from me, tore off a branch." Captain de Clieu Shares His Drinking Water With the Coffee Plant He Is Carrying to Martinique
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

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