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unploughed land proclaim him a

Did not the very crops cry out as they rotted that his father was a fool, and the unploughed land proclaim him a coward?
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Universal Library Project hosted at

It also worked with The Universal Library Project, hosted at Carnegie Mellon University.
— from Technology and Books for All by Marie Lebert

University loudly proclaimed himself a

Professor Eugene Dühring, Privat Docent of Berlin University, loudly proclaimed himself a convert to Socialism.
— from The Art of Lecturing Revised Edition by Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis

usurer like Pepoli had almost

The bastards of Popes, who like Sixtus IV. had no pedigree, merchants like the Medici, the son of a peasant like Francesco Sforza, a rich usurer like Pepoli, had almost equal chances with nobles of the ancient houses of Este, Visconti, or Malatesta.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

up like pancakes hot and

His ideas are served up, like pancakes, hot and hot.
— from Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners by William Hazlitt

underground labors paused here and

Bands of peons released from their underground labors paused here and there on the way home to wager cigarettes on which could toss a stone nearest the next mud puddle.
— from Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

uncle Leader paid her a

Her uncle Leader paid her a visit on the 5th, and gave her the thirty guineas, telling her that the hundred guineas were lodged in the hands of Mr. Ripshaw for the discharge of Will Laud.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

up Lady Peggy hat and

her wig clung, and she clung to her bundle; out of coach the pink brocade gentleman, down from the rumble his footman, pick up Lady Peggy, hat and all, rubbing the mud out of her silk stockings, clapping her hands; yet relented she not from the bundle, and all a-breath the loller cries: “Into my coach, Sir!
— from My Lady Peggy Goes to Town by Frances Aymar Mathews

up like pickled herrings And

These kegs now hold the rebels bold, Pack'd up like pickled herrings And they're come down to attack the town, In this new way of ferrying.'
— from The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

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