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Town and Limehouse managed one night

Some men of the Osnabrück Regiment, holding Canning Town and Limehouse, managed one night, by strategy, to force their way through the Blackwall Tunnel and break down its defence on the Surrey side in an attempt to blow up the South Metropolitan Gas Works close by.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux

that a large majority of New

But it is curious that so discredited were the newspapers of that period that a large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the most copious and circumstantial accounts of the German air-fleet until it was actually in sight of New York.
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

that among literary men one never

But one is so accustomed to that among literary men, one never expects them to be like anybody else, and so takes their whims and oddities for granted."
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

that antiseptic like many others not

He found, however, that that antiseptic, like many others, not only did not completely disinfect the intestine but sometimes had a harmful effect on the body.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

theme and learned much of Nina

But Thorpe, who found a certain satisfaction in talking of the beloved object, gently led her back to her former theme, and learned much of Nina’s childhood and school-girl pranks.
— from A Daughter of the Vine by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

to a like method of narrative

Maybe the very aimlessness of such loiterings conduces to a like method of narrative.
— from Alone by Norman Douglas

They are learned men of noble

They are learned men, of noble blood; tell their story at every court, among all peoples, and write it in books for all to read; while the peasant has suffered in silence, perished in prisons by starvation, and in the galleys, as unregarded as the dead leaves that strew yonder vineyard."
— from The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

that a line must of necessity

Or again, if the original argument were, that a line must of necessity be drawn somewhere, and that £10 was the lowest qualification which seemed to guarantee such an amount of educated intelligence in the voter as would enable him to exercise the franchise conferred on him judiciously and honestly, such reasoning would from time to time invite the contention that the spread of education had rendered £8 tenants now as enlightened as £10 tenants had been some years before.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

throne a London mayor of no

Even when Edward III. was still on the throne, a London mayor of no special note, John Pyel, could set up in his native Northamptonshire village of Irthlingborough a college and church of remarkable 427 stateliness and dignity.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

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