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the early romantic revival in three

These two poems, though rather dull to a modern reader, were significant of the early romantic revival in three ways: they abandoned the prevailing heroic couplet; they went back to the Elizabethans, instead of to Pope, for their models; and they called attention to the long-neglected life of nature as a subject for poetry.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the Elbow Rock rapids into the

With Brian at the oars, the boat crossed the stream to the safer waters close to the other shore, and then, with Betty Jo waving her handkerchief, and the neighbor men and boys running shouting along the bank, swept down the river, past the roaring turmoil of the Elbow Rock rapids into the quiet reaches below, and away on its winding course between the tree-clad hills.
— from The Re-Creation of Brian Kent by Harold Bell Wright

The extreme rates recorded in the

The extreme rates recorded in the Registrar-General’s last publication, relating to the septennial period 1838-44, give 14 per thousand per annum as the lowest average, and 33 1 ⁄ 2 as the highest average, for a population male and female in equal proportion.
— from Reports Relating to the Sanitary Condition of the City of London by John Simon

trollies etc rather racking in the

That, combined with all the shouting and clatter of trollies, etc., rather racking in the small hours.
— from Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front by Keith Henderson

these extra red rays is that

Sir William Herschel discovered that invisible rays of high heating power exist beyond the red end of the solar spectrum, and Mr. Tyndall has shown that the reason of a substance being impervious to the light of the most brilliant flame and at the same time pervious to these extra red rays is, that the intercepted rays of light are those whose periods of recurrence coincide with the periods of oscillation possible to the atoms of the substance in question.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

tied eight ropes round it to

"I got a big circle of canvas out of the tent, about three times the size of that table-cover, and plugged the hole in the centre, and I tied eight ropes round it to meet in the middle and make a parachute.
— from The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

the earlier revelation recorded in the

At the same time, as they study in order the deeds of the heroes and makers of Israel's history, they are becoming familiar with the real background of the earlier revelation recorded in the Old Testament.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent

the enemy rapidly running in their

he shouted; and the eager crew poured a broadside into the enemy, rapidly running in their guns, and reloading them to be ready for the next opponent.
— from From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure by William Henry Giles Kingston

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