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Will appeal strongly to every lover of the
$1.50 "Will appeal strongly to every lover of the best detective fiction."— N. Y. Sun .
— from The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham

wide and stretch the entire length of the
The plan is cruciform, but with very short transepts, not extending beyond the aisles, which are wide and stretch the entire length of the church.
— from England, Picturesque and Descriptive: A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel by Joel Cook

walls and saw the encircling lines of the
Timid and faithless souls in Jerusalem, as they looked over the walls and saw the encircling lines of the fierce foes drawing closer and closer round the doomed city, must have said, 'Our Lord delayeth His coming,' and could not stand the test of their faith and patience, involved in God's apparent indifference to the need of His people.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

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