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to a remote geological epoch The

For the reason we must go back to a remote geological epoch: "The main cause must have been the subsequent rise of the Sierra Nevada.
— from The Young Miner; Or, Tom Nelson in California by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

to a relatively greater extent than

New Brunswick benefited to a relatively greater extent than Nova Scotia by the Loyalist movement.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

than a reasonably good excuse to

I should have liked nothing better than a reasonably good excuse to punch his head; yet, paradoxically, I was ashamed of myself for harboring him any ill will.
— from The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

these astonishing rules governed even the

As these astonishing rules governed even the farmer and shopkeeper as well as the manufacturer, you can imagine that there was not much satisfaction in trying to carry on any business.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

the armies received gratuities especially those

A great many centurions also, of both the armies, received gratuities, especially those who were in the centre.
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

that are really gifted enjoy themselves

And as so many of those that are really gifted enjoy themselves with only an occasional spasm of self-disgust, they are not greatly to be pitied.
— from Ancestors: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

to a rising ground exposed to

The king, with a handful of cavaliers, galloped to a rising ground, exposed to the fire of the enemy, calling upon the flying troops and endeavoring in vain to rally them.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

to Africa rather give expression to

That the map of Marino Sanuto in 1306, and the so-called Laurentian portolano of 1351, both of which establish a vague southerly limit to Africa, rather give expression to a theory than chronicle the experience of navigators is the opinion of Major.
— from Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery by Justin Winsor

them air River Gods ez they

“Mrs. Hamlin's a Hawley, one o' them air River Gods, ez they calls em daown Hampshire way.
— from The Duke of Stockbridge: A Romance of Shays' Rebellion by Edward Bellamy

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