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The one remaining incident of note
The one remaining incident of note was the arrival on the scene, as we left it, of another caravan—a small caravan consisting of two Europeans—a few laden camels, and camel-boys marshalled by one dragoman.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear
Produced by the Educational Broadcasting Corporation under the joint direction of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission’s Divisions of Isotopes Development and Nuclear Education and Training, and the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.
— from Radioisotopes in Medicine by Earl W. Phelan

than one received If our narrator
OUR am'rous wight more joys than one received, If our narrator of the tale's believed; (In bed a muleteer is worth three kings, And value oft is found in humble things.)
— from Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine

the original root idea of nature
The change was momentous; but it held fast to the original root idea of nature as a manifestation of spiritual powers.
— from Nature Mysticism by John Edward Mercer

them or retaliate in other newspapers
He did not answer them, or retaliate in other newspapers, but Jethro Bass had never made use of newspapers in this way.
— from Coniston — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

the ovum retains its original naked
In many of the lower animals the ovum retains its original naked form until fertilisation, develops no membranes, and is then often indistinguishable from the ordinary amoeba.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Haeckel

the outside rank is of no
Since the opposition on the outside rank is of no avail, when the pawn has not yet played to his sixth square, the weaker side must try to keep away the opposing King from the sixth rank until the pawn has reached that rank.
— from Chess Strategy by Edward Lasker

the one related it ought never
When there is no object in view beyond the simple breaking of the heads of those opposed to us, there requires no speechification; but, on all occasions, like the one related, it ought never to be lost sight of—it is easily done—it never, by any possibility, can prove disadvantageous, and I have seen many instances in which the advantages would have been incalculable.
— from Random Shots from a Rifleman by J. (John) Kincaid


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