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to Occurrences 1357%

In the course of our experiments, we discovered that this same metal, which was repelled from the earth, was in the same degree attracted towards the moon; for in one of our excursions, still aiming to ascend higher than we had ever done before, we were actually carried to that satellite; and if we had not there fallen into a lake, and our machine had not been water-tight, we must have been dashed to pieces or drowned.

on Occurrences 1345%

In this time have been carried on gigantic engineering undertakings,the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the Trans-Balkan Railroad, the rebuilding of New York.

with Occurrences 873%

The only things that reminded us of civilization, aside from what we carried with us, were the innumerable crickets that, through all the night, kept up their chirruping in the crevices of this rude fireplace.

into Occurrences 802%

Had you lived longer among us, you would have known that your ingenious project could never be carried into execution.

in Occurrences 749%

She has carried in a cargo or so of junk; it was lying on the beach where a fool master had piled it, and I took what I found.

from Occurrences 177%

Oh, how far more befitting would it have been had I never been born, or had I been carried from that luckless womb to my grave, or had I possessed a life not longer than that of the teeth sown by Cadmus, or had Atropos cut the thread of my existence at the very hour when it had begun!

through Occurrences 171%

Its banner flies over every country and has been carried through tribulation, through sorrow, through danger, and through death to the remotest parts of the yet-known world.

about Occurrences 162%

In his diplomatic career he was taken prisoner during the war with China; and, with Mr. Boulby, the Times correspondent, was carried about in a cage by his captors, and exhibited to the natives.

out Occurrences 119%

As he was being carried out of the ship he swooned, and reviving again desired the company to pray for him.

for Occurrences 85%

She wasn't thinking of him the least in the world, nor even of the milk he was at such pains to carry for her.

over Occurrences 85%

Sections a mile long and half a mile wide were forced up, carried over the first ice-pack, and summarily stopped below the barrier.

at Occurrences 75%

We had sweated the canvas on her, even to the flying jib and a huge club topsail she sometimes carried at the main, for the afternoon trades had lost their strength.

before Occurrences 59%

We were immediately carried before their governor, or chief magistrate, who ordered our baggage to be searched, and finding that it consisted principally of silver, he had no doubt of our hostile intentions.

across Occurrences 42%

" The powerful lamp had been carried across the bridge in order to warn the engineer of the gravel train, who on his last journey had run to the end of the line.

beyond Occurrences 37%

As reformations are often carried beyond necessity, possibly lentils may have fallen into disuse, as an article of diet amongst Protestants, for fear the use of them might be considered a sign of popery.

under Occurrences 37%

One month afterwards our hero presented himself at the house of Miss VAVASOUR, carrying under his arm a large volume, bound in calf.

along Occurrences 37%

The steam which he used for cooking, was carried along a pipe under a succession of kettles and boilers, descending in regular gradation, by which a great saving of fuel was effected; and, to perfect this part of the apparatus, the pipe could be removed, to give place to one of the size suited to the occasion.

as Occurrences 29%

The scrap of lace merely shows that it was torn off a good handkerchief, but there is nothing about it to show that the handkerchief was different in any marked way from the average filmy scrap of muslin and lace which every smart woman carries as a handkerchief.

within Occurrences 26%

The position of the Sea Lion of Oyster Pond was to be traced only by a high mound of snow, which had been arrested by the obstacle she presented to its drift; but her bulwarks, planks, deck, top-timbers, stern-framein short, nearly all of the vessel above water, had actually been taken to pieces, and carried within the covering of the verandah mentioned, in readiness for the stoves!

without Occurrences 22%

The engineers reporting that the fortress on El Peñon could not be carried without a loss of one-third the army, Scott decided to move by the south of the lakes; and Worth accordingly advanced, leading the van, as far as San Augustin, nine miles from the city of Mexico.

like Occurrences 18%

She could do what she pleased with old man Dawson; make him fetch and carry like a poodle.

above Occurrences 15%

" The wind and the rain made shouting necessary if one's voice were to carry above the storm.

by Occurrences 15%

This, and abundance of similar sage saws assuming to inculcate content, we verily believe to have been the invention of some cunning borrower, who had designs upon the purse of his wealthier neighbour, which he could only hope to carry by force of these verbal jugglings.

between Occurrences 14%

" Parks was back in a moment, piloting two men who carried between them an object swathed in burlap, and the Metropolitan man followed them in.

against Occurrences 14%

"' The motion, supported by Mr. Gladstone in one of his splendid bursts of rhetoric, was carried against the Government by a majority of sixteen, in a full and excited house, on the morning of February 26, 1857.

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