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XVI Unnatural deeds

I ask alone, As rapt I climb these dark romantic steeps, The elemental war, the billow's moan; I ask the still, sweet tear, that listening Fancy weeps! H2 anchor CHAPTER XVI Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

xxiv un des

cit. , p. xxiv, “un des plus grands charmes de son roman est le cadre de nature, et l’intime union du décor et des personnages: dans ce sol plaisant et fertile, les deux héros semblent avoir leurs racines comme de jeunes plantes.”
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

xiii undertaking described

Pg xiii] undertaking described in these studies.
— from Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West by Archer Butler Hulbert

XXVI Unorna drew

H2 anchor CHAPTER XXVI Unorna drew one deep breath when she first heard her name fall with a loving accent from the Wanderer’s lips.
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

XXVIII UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT

XXVIII UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

X under date

The incident took place the day before, and is evidently identical with that mentioned by Second-Lieutenant X. under date of October 21: "Intensive shelling, a good deal of damage.
— from Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) by Charles Le Goffic

XIV UNCLE DAN

CHAPTER XIV UNCLE DAN'S RESEARCHES "Uncle Dan," whose last name was Hapgood, did not cease his calls upon the Clarks.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

XVI UPSIDE DOWNSIDE

ADMISHION $25 [Pg 145] CHAPTER XVI UPSIDE DOWNSIDE BUNNY
— from Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue Giving a Show by Laura Lee Hope

XI under date

There is an entry in the accounts of Louis XI., under date of February 11, 1469, of the payment of sixty livres Tournois to Squire Guion de Broc, to be used by him "in having constructed, at the castle Douzain, an iron cage, which the said lord ( i. e. , Louis) has ordered to be made for the security and guard of the person of the Cardinal of Angers (Balue)."
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

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