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the English came here soon after to

In 1765 the British recaptured the fort and kept it until 1785, when it passed into the possession of the U.S. Gen. Anthony Wayne, who was given the task of occupying [98] the lake posts delivered up by the English, came here soon after to negotiate the famous treaty of Greenville with the Indians in 1795.
— from The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. by New York Central Railroad Company

the expedition conducting himself so as to

So, to ascertain the true nature of the expedition, he commissioned Paul Jones to go to Brest "to satisfy himself of the nature of the expedition; conducting himself so as to excite no suspicion."
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

the eye could hardly see as they

After that fiery bolt that had set the night aflame, it was a gleaming dust, shedding fleeting sparks, which the eye could hardly see as they sped by.
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

The Englishman certainly had started at the

The Englishman certainly had started at the first sight of the corpse, but it was a natural movement of horror which might have escaped any unconcerned spectator at being brought into the presence of death in such a hideous form.
— from The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

than either could have spoken and they

That voice spoke for them far better than either could have spoken, and they were content.
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

the eighteenth century had slain a thousand

a hundred years since Voltaire, and mankind still went on believing in all these follies and fables, in the ten plagues, in Balaam's ass, in the walls of Jericho, in miraculous births, and Magi, and prophetic stars!—in everything that the mockery of the eighteenth century had slain a thousand times over.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

the early Christian hymns St Ambrose the

CHAPTER X — INFLUENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 128 -133 Church not influential in the development of music as such — nature of the early Christian hymns — St. Ambrose — the Ambrosian scales — corruptions elsewhere — St. Gregory and his reforms — the Gregorian tones — many later reforms — limitations of these reforms — incidental influence of the Church through her great cathedrals.
— from A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews

the early Christian hymns such as the

Some of the early Christian hymns, such as the Gloria in Excelsis and the Te Deum Laudamus , are still sung in our churches.
— from Early European History by Hutton Webster

to eat candy he said and then

“You are please to conceal this from the powers that be, if it’s against boarding school laws to eat candy,” he said and then stood turning the smaller box about in his hand, surveying it thoughtfully.
— from The Ranch Girls at Boarding School by Margaret Vandercook

the envious clouds her sisters and the

In the story of "Cinderella," we have the ancient nature-myth of the sun and the dawn, representing the morning sun in the form of a fairy prince pursuing Cinderella, the dawn, to claim her for his bride, whilst the envious clouds, her sisters, and the moon, her stepmother, strive to keep her in the background.
— from Domestic folk-lore by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

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