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to hold a separate service on Sundays

The Episcopal clergyman offered to hold a separate service on Sundays for their benefit.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

To have a scholarly son or son

39 To have a scholarly son or son-in-law was the best passport to the highest circles, a means of rising from the lowliest to the loftiest station in life.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

to her as she shuffled on some

At last, despairing, he went out on the landing and shouted his request to her as she shuffled on some errand below.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various

the hills and spending six or seven

Early in 1847, accompanied by a brother missionary, we went to Almora, nearly six hundred miles distant, travelling with our tents to the foot of the hills, and spending six or seven weeks on our way.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

to have a small store of Seneca

Almost every good housewife was supposed to have a small store of Seneca oil, as it was popularly termed, laid by in case of accident, for the medication of cuts and bruises; and not even the most popular of the nostrums of the present day is so much relied on as was this—nature's own medicine—by the early settlers in these valleys.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

tell her anything She stuck out she

"Didn't Polly tell her anything?" "She stuck out she knew where the 'usband was, and that's all." "How do you know?" "Polly said so as she went upstairs, and 'oped her awnt 'ud sleep well on it.
— from The Town Traveller by George Gissing

the hewn and solid staircase of steps

The object of this chapter is to trace and mount the hewn and solid staircase of steps by which Germany's present supremacy over Turkey was achieved.
— from Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

That has a Scottish sort of sound

That has a Scottish sort of sound."
— from The Romance of War; or, The Highlanders in Spain, Volume 2 (of 3) by James Grant

the hard and stony soil of Syria

Upon this system of divine truth his own hopes of eternal life rested, and it was this which he earnestly labored, for thirty years, to infuse into the Arabic literature, and transplant into the hard and stony soil of Syria's moral desert."
— from History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

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