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Kathleen's kimona trailing behind her on the polished floor, Hertha walked about the room, examining each newly acquired article.
— from The Shadow by Mary White Ovington
Lightning too was playing among the rolling black masses of smoke, and the roaring explosions every now and then seemed to shake the very heavens.
— from Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
The May sunshine had lured forth some pioneer locusts, whose shrill cries came from who could tell where--the tall swale-grass on the river edge, erect now again after the April floods, or the brown broom-corn nearer the road, or from the sky above?
— from In the Valley by Harold Frederic
Bertha opened the wardrobe,—the dresses Madeleine usually wore were hanging within; she wandered about the room, examining every nook and corner, hardly conscious of what she was
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
And so manie a noble course and other martiall feats were atchiued in those foure daies, to the great contentation and pleasure of manie a yoong batcheler desirous to win fame, & also highlie to the kings honour, who by all that season held his court in the bishops palace by Paules church, kéeping open houshold for all honest persons that thither resorted, especiallie euerie night after the iusts were ended, a right sumptuous and princelie supper was prepared for the strangers and other, and after supper, the time was spent in dansing and reuelling after the most courtlike maner.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (12 of 12) Richard the Second, the Second Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales by Raphael Holinshed
iisdem terminis sedeant, sicut sederunt in tempore regis Edwardi, et non aliter.
— from View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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