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them also killing a number of

He then turned, and proceeding to the towns on Little Tennessee burned several of them also, killing a number of Indians.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

the attack knew a number of

MacManus, who had command of the stewards on the night of the attack, knew a number of men like Mick Digney, who was what was called a "lumper"—that is, a contractor in a small way who took work in the "lump" and employed men for loading and unloading ships.
— from The Life Story of an Old Rebel by John Denvir

throat and knows a number of

The writer has had strong evidence of the efficacy of amber in the cure of asthma, hay fever, croup and various diseases of the throat, and knows a number of medical practitioners who are convinced of its beneficial action.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

TO ALANNA K ATHLEEN N ORRIS

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALANNA K ATHLEEN N ORRIS , a Californian by birth, has been a voluminous writer of magazine fiction since 1910, when she contributed two stories to the Atlantic — What Happened to Alanna and The Tide Marsh .
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

Turks and killed a number of

But the smoke and flame served us for a screen, and we got to the rear of the Turks and killed a number of them before galloping off into the dark.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

to a king and none of

Juan II. had in fact all the qualities which are useless to a king, and none of those which are indispensable.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

the animal kingdom a number of

The mental attitude of primitive races in all parts of the world to worship a species of living animal or plant taught the Fijians where to look for their tutelary divinity, and the shark being to a people seafaring in frail craft the most dreaded and implacable of all the animal kingdom, a number of diverse tribes chose to propitiate the shark independently.
— from The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson

time a king at nightfall of

A light blazed above his head, and “his hair became tangled about as it had been the branches of a red thorn-bush stuffed into the gap of a fence.... Taller, thicker, more rigid, longer than the mast of a great ship was the perpendicular jet of dusky blood which out of his scalp's very central point shot upwards and was there scattered to the four cardinal points, whereby was formed a magic mist of gloom resembling the smoky pall that drapes a regal dwelling, what time a king at nightfall of a winter's day draws near to it.”
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston

time and knows absolutely nothing of

“He has not the least understanding for the ideas or the changes which have entered into art in our time, and knows absolutely nothing of the poets of recent days.
— from The History of Modern Painting, Volume 1 (of 4) Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century by Richard Muther

them and kill a number of

I had plenty of buckshot, and with my back to the boulder I was not afraid of being attacked in the rear, and I could face them without fear, fire at them, and kill a number of them.
— from The Land of the Long Night by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

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