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A History of Europe since 1870 with a background chapter dealing with events from 1815 to 1870.

The First and Second World Wars: war backgrounds edition of Western civilization, revised to the end of the Second World War.

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In many representations of the Flight into Egypt, we find in the background men sowing or cutting corn.

This tendency to use a historic background marks most of Mr. Allen's stories.

The phantom city fades; the ruddy background melts into the gray mountain-side.

Within the memory of those now living, gold background pictures of the schools of Giotto and his successors, owing to the contempt the pseudo-classical French taste had excited for them, were brought out of suppressed churches and convents and publicly burned to obtain the trifling amount of gold which remained in the ashes.

All my life, I have heard persons with ex-slave background refer to the activities of the Ku Klux among slaves prior to 1865.

Maybe so, Moraes too played a vital background role in Goa's liberation, largely because of his close friendship with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

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What does come naturally to her is seen in a background sketch of the unhappy countries of Asia Minor in the hands of the Turk and the Hun, which is so much the abler part of the book that one would almost rather the too intrusive narrative were brushed aside entirely.

The sun shone on its lichened front, where a creeper was going red; in the background birches with silver stems and leaves like showers of gold gleamed against somber firs.

It is a fashionable watering-place, but it is also, perhaps, the most beautifully disposed city to be found in all the round of the European coast line, its slightly curving slope dominated by a background terrace, decorative in itself, but delightfully set off with its fringe of dwelling-houses, hotels, and casinos.

"Have we decided on the background flowers for the wild bed?" "Joe-Pye-Weed is tall enough," offered James.

In the background grave and serious demons, the princes of the infernal realm, discussed the new departure, and consulted especially how to break it to Madam Lucifera commission of which no one seemed ambitious.

ACT V The outer court of CREON'S palace, as in the preceding act; the royal apartments in the background lie in blackened ruins whence smoke is still curling up; the court-yard is filled with various palace attendants busied in various ways.