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stream piracy a river gained or

Through what Davis calls stream piracy a river gained or lost the drainage of a tract of country.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

stream produced a rank growth of

This cleft, wider than the other, was the one down which the considerable brook flowed, and the few yards or so of fertile ground on either side of the stream produced a rank growth of trees.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

summer perhaps a rank growth of

At the beginning of summer perhaps a rank growth of grass starts up vigorously in the vicinity, and the path of the surface drain can be traced by the heavy vegetation along the line of the drain.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

selling ploughing and reaping going out

His neighbours had watched him, for a generation and more, buying and selling, ploughing and reaping, going out and in the common ways of a farmer's life, and had not missed the glory of the soul.
— from Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren

St Petersburg and Rome Governor of

He has had every distinguished post England can offer—Ambassador to St. Petersburg and Rome, Governor of Canada, and Viceroy of India, and has played a great part.
— from Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900 by Mary King Waddington

stagnant pools and rank grass of

The art of the Renaissance fell indeed into shameful degradation soon after the period of its triumphant union with the antique; and Raphael's grand gods and goddesses, his exquisite Eros and radiant Psyche of the Farnesina, are indeed succeeded but too soon by the Olympus of Giulio Romano, an Olympus of harlots and acrobats, who smirk and mouth and wriggle and sprawl ignobly on the walls and ceilings of the dismantled palace which crumbles away among the stunted willows, the stagnant pools, and rank grass of the marshes of Mantua.
— from Euphorion - Vol. I Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance by Vernon Lee

South Postern and Rye Gate or

West Postern in St. Mary’s Street, Schere Gate or South Postern, and Rye Gate or River Postern, but these have been demolished.
— from English Coast Defences From Roman Times to the Early Years of the Nineteenth Century by George Clinch

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