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the soil crops and

More probably, however, the wind and clouds, the weather, the soil, crops and taxes, his family and food and how to provide for them, are the main thoughts that occupy his mind.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

This secret conspiracy and

[ This secret conspiracy and its important consequences, may be traced in the fragments of Priscus, p. 37, 38, 39, 54, 70, 71, 72.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

the same collection and

The same stratagem, with only a change of names, recurs in another Omaha story, “The Raccoon and the Crabs,” of the same collection, and in a Cheyenne story of White-man (A. L. Kroeber, Cheyenne Tales, in Journal [ 450 ] of American Folk-Lore, July, 1900), and in the Jicarilla story of “The Fox and the Wildcat” (Russell, Myths of the Jicarilla, ibid., October, 1898).
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

their side cried aloud

At these cries, all who were in the hotel rushed out and fell upon the four companions, who on their side cried aloud, “To the rescue, Musketeers!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

that she came as

Io also is said to have been the daughter of Inachus, who was afterwards called Isis, when she was worshipped in Egypt as a great goddess; although others write that she came as a queen out of Ethiopia, and because she ruled extensively and justly, and instituted for her subjects letters and many useful things, such divine honour was given her there after she died, that if any one said she had been human, he was charged with a capital crime.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

their straightened chamber at

We see them adjourning to the open air from their straightened chamber at Navy Hall, and conducting the business of the young Province under the shade of a spreading tree, introducing the English Code and Trial by Jury, decreeing Roads, and prohibiting the spread of Slavery; while a boulder of the drift, lifting itself up through the natural turf, serves as a desk for the recording clerk.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

traitors shouted Carini and

"Down with the traitors!" shouted Carini and Montanelli.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

that sudden changes and

They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less-informed part of the community.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

the savages compelled a

Through a loop hole prepared for such an emergency, a rifle shot, discharged at the savages, compelled a precipitate retreat.
— from Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

the summer colony and

The house stood at the edge of the summer colony and a considerable distance from its nearest neighbor.
— from Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson

the simplest construction and

He built a number of cottages pretty in design and of the simplest construction, and disposed them well for effect.
— from Memories and Studies by William James

the servant come and

Let the servant come and we can pay him, and desire him to fetch us a coach," replied Rodolph.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

these successive changes as

When the fossil remains which are the evidences of these successive changes, as they have occurred in any two more or less distant parts of the surface of the earth, are compared, they exhibit a certain broad and general parallelism.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

thieving scoundrels closely allied

They have been generally represented as wild, savage, bloodthirsty, thieving scoundrels, closely allied to Italian brigands and Greek palikari—if anything, worse than either.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

This skirmishing continued about

This skirmishing continued about an hour and a half, till he had fallen back to the place where the [Pg 321] governor and his people were drawn up, at the entrance of the city, to make a stand.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

this service contained an

The conveyance belonging to this service contained an iron bed with its accessories, a dressing-case with linen, coats, etc.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

twining spirals clasp And

"Thou com'st with me, thou butcher man!"— He strives to loose his grasp, But, faster than the clinging vine, Those twining spirals clasp; And open, open swung the door, And, fleeter than the wind, The shadowy spectre swept before, The butcher trailed behind.
— from The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete by Oliver Wendell Holmes

the small clique at

Meanwhile the small clique at the upper end of the table was engaged in a conversation by itself, Count Schönstein appealing to the manager vehemently: "Was I not right in begging you to give the public Miss Brunel's 'Juliet?'
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

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