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to his left arm

we met with the We arh koont whome we have usially distinguished by the name of the big horn Chief from the circumstance of his always wareing a horn of that animal Suspended by a Cord to his left arm.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

that his long and

Shall we venture to pronounce, therefore, that his long and black calamity may not have had a redeeming drop of mercy at the bottom?
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

to her like all

She feared for her brother who was in it, was horrified by and amazed at the strange cruelty that impels men to kill one another, but she did not understand the significance of this war, which seemed to her like all previous wars.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

that he lost all

All these, operating on the natural jealousy of his temper, so enraged him, that he lost all power of speech; and, without returning any answer to Jones, he endeavoured to approach the bed.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Toby had laid a

As soon as my uncle Toby had laid a foundation, and taught him to inscribe a regular polygon in a circle, he sent him to a public school, where, excepting Whitsontide and Christmas, at which times the corporal was punctually dispatched for him,—he remained to the spring of the year, seventeen; when the stories of the emperor's sending his army into Hungary against the Turks, kindling a spark of fire in his bosom, he left his Greek and Latin without leave, and throwing himself upon his knees before my uncle Toby, begged his father's sword, and my uncle Toby's leave along with it, to go and try his fortune under Eugene.—Twice did my uncle Toby forget his wound and cry out, Le Fever!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

They had looked at

They had looked at the splendid books and pictures and sometimes Mary had read things to Colin, and sometimes he had read a little to her.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

then hesitated looking at

Dinah dusted up to the very edge of these and then hesitated, looking at them with a longing but timid eye.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

times his Lord and

In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone in the world—but who was poring over the Bible to find how many times his Lord and Master had told him to “rejoice and be glad.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

took her leave at

When she took her leave at last, it would have been hard to say whether it was with the air of going to the scaffold herself, or of leaving the inmates of the house for immediate execution.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

took his leave and

Whereupon he took his leave, and determined, privately in his own mind, that he also would be at the Exhibition, and would speak to Carmela on the subject nearest his heart.
— from The Girl from Malta by Fergus Hume

to have Lucy and

no, I suppose we ought hardly to have expected you to spare her so soon after your return," said Mrs. Carrington; "but, really, I am very sorry to be refused, for Elsie is such a good child that I am always delighted to have Lucy and Herbert with her."
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley

the Habsburg lip and

A bronzed face, disfigured by the Habsburg lip and an air of disdain, one would have picked him out of thousands as a person to avoid!
— from The Secret Memoirs of Bertha Krupp From the Papers and Diaries of Chief Gouvernante Baroness D'Alteville by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer

T HOMAS L AWRENCE

T HOMAS L AWRENCE.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 122, February 28, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

told his love and

The devoted youth became desperately enamored of this friend, of the captain; he "told his love," and then came proof positive, that Greek and Roman friendship are not comparable to the tremendous sacrifice of personal feeling, which you may expect from [Pg 632] a café acquaintance.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. III, No. XVII, October 1851 by Various

them his lawe and

When this counterfeicte prophet had saused his secte with these wicked opinions: he gaue them his lawe, and sorte of religion.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

then he looks at

and then he looks at me in rather an odd way."
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

through his lung awed

But the apparition of Reuben McNab, the schoolmate, lying there in the mud, with a hole through his lung, awed me into stutterings, set me trembling with a sense of terrible intimacy with this war which theretofore I could have believed was a dream—almost.
— from Wounds in the rain: War stories by Stephen Crane

to him like a

Baumberger sticks to him like a bur to a dog's tail.
— from Good Indian by B. M. Bower

that he lived a

He says he thinks that he lived a long time ago, and then a shorter time ago, and then now.
— from Foes by Mary Johnston

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