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sparsely populated strip or
Population Bataan 537 46,787 Zambales 2,125 104,549 2,662 151,336 Also, between the Pacific Ocean and the coast range which forms the eastern boundary of the plain is a longer, narrower, and very sparsely populated strip, or east wing, divided also into two provinces, Principe on the north and Infanta on the south, each supposed to contain about fifteen thousand people.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Selves party Scattered on
Certain it is they are the best canoe navigators I ever Saw The tide was 3 hours later to day than yesterday and rose much higher, the trees we camped on was all on flote for about 2 hours from 3 untill 5 oClock P M, the great quantities of rain which has fallen losenes the Stones on the Side of the hill & the Small ones fall on us, our Situation is truly a disagreeable one our Canoes in one place at the mercy of the waves our baggage in another and our Selves & party Scattered on drift trees of emense Sizes, & are on what dry land they can find in the Crevices of the rocks & hill Sides H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

some papers said one
“If you please, your excellency, Pétrusha has brought some papers,” said one of the nursemaids to Prince Andrew who was sitting on a child’s little chair while, frowning and with trembling hands, he poured drops from a medicine bottle into a wineglass half full of water.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

second person singular of
Observe that the second person singular of the present passive imperative is like the present active infinitive, and that both singular and plural are like the second person singular 2 and plural, respectively, of the present passive indicative.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Sancho Panza squire of
GANDALIN, SQUIRE OF AMADIS OF GAUL, To Sancho Panza, squire of Don Quixote SONNET All hail, illustrious man!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

so perfectly symbolic of
While this procession passed before him, on its way to war and perhaps to death,—so wonderful in its vital strength and formidable courage, and so perfectly symbolic of a race that will conquer and prevail, or perish in the attempt,—Nietzsche was struck with the thought that the highest will to live could not find its expression in a miserable "struggle for existence," but in a will to war, a Will to Power, a will to overpower!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

still profounder sweetness of
One of these tunes, just as it had sounded from her spiritual touch, had been written down by an amateur of music; it was so exquisitely mournful that nobody, to this day, could bear to hear it played, unless when a great sorrow had made them know the still profounder sweetness of it.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

someone playing softly on
" There were gardens all along the lane, and a row of lime-trees growing by the fence cast a broad patch of shadow in the moonlight, so that the gate and the fences were completely plunged in darkness on one side, from which came the sounds of women whispering, smothered laughter, and someone playing softly on a balalaika.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

sensorial photism shade off
These reports of sensorial photism shade off into what are evidently only metaphorical accounts of the sense of new spiritual illumination, as, for instance, in Brainerd's statement: “As I was walking in a thick grove, unspeakable glory seemed to open to the apprehension of my soul.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

some public school of
The stranger, that entereth in the court of England upon the sudden, shall rather imagine himself to come into some public school of the university, where many give ear to one that readeth unto them, than into a prince’s palace, if you confer thus with those of other nations.”
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

she pushed something or
The girl did not start, but rather passed immediately into full consciousness with a little shudder and a quick gesture of the hand, as if she pushed something or some one from her.
— from Joan of the Sword Hand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

some pretty stories of
Granny told some pretty stories of when she was a little girl, stories to which the children always listened with real delight, because Gran'ma evidently had been a little girl, from the sort of things she told, and the way she told them, not like some grown-up people who would make their youngers believe that they never cared for anything but lesson-books and goody-goodiness from the moment they were christened.
— from Terry; Or, She ought to have been a Boy by Rosa M. (Rosa Mulholland) Gilbert

shall presently see of
On the 9th July, Sergeant Trenchard reported, "That the committee had proof " (we shall presently see of what kind) "of several other persons being in Ireland in arms with King James, and therefore had agreed their names should be inserted in the bill."
— from Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Thomas Osborne Davis

slightly pendulous six or
Plant from four to five feet high, dividing into two or three branches; flowers white; pods horizontal, or slightly pendulous, six or seven inches long, about an inch in width, three-fourths of an inch thick, and containing five or six large white or yellowish-white seeds.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr


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