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stern Pelides rage O Goddess sing
The stern Pelides’ rage , O Goddess, sing, wrath
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

slight pretext resting on great suspicions
And now, all being full of mutation, rearrangement and infinite rumor, there marched next year (1614), on slight pretext, resting on great suspicions, Spanish troops into the Julich-Cleve country, and, countenanced by Neuburg, began seizing garrisons there.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle

steeply pointed roof of gray shingles
At last they reached the inn with the steeply pointed roof of gray shingles and the big picture of Heiligengelt's patron saint portrayed in bright colours on the white house-wall.
— from The Adventure of Princess Sylvia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

scales pale red or green spirally
Sterile flowers terminal or axillary, on wood of the preceding season; distinctly stalked; cylindrical, 1/2 an inch long; anthers pale red: fertile flowers at or near ends of season's shoots; scales pale red or green, spirally imbricated, broader than long; margin roundish, entire or nearly so; each scale bearing two ovules.
— from Handbook of the Trees of New England by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks

Some Personal Recollections of George Sand
Booty in War Sir Henry Bessemer Some Personal Recollections of George Sand The American Senate Shakespeare and Balzac The Dread of Old Age A True Critic An Aerial Ride The Condition of Schleswig Chinese Notions of Immortality An Approaching Star Germans and Russians in Persia Learning to Ride A Tragic Barring-Out Intelligence in Cats The Migration of Birds, 858 Oriental Flower Lore
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

Some Personal Recollections of George Sand
Some Personal Recollections of George Sand.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

Some personal recollections of George Sand
Some personal recollections of George Sand given by Mrs. Ellis, the authoress of “Sylvestra,” may therefore be of interest: “Above twenty years ago,” writes Mrs. Ellis, “I spent three days in a French hotel (at Tours) with George Sand, without knowing who she was.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, March 1885 by Various

some personal reminiscences of General Sherman
"Brigadier-General Stone, who commanded a brigade in the Fifteenth Army Corps in 1864, submitted for publication some personal reminiscences of General Sherman.
— from Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A. by Willis Fletcher Johnson


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