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of Occurrences 299%

The British evidence in this and many another embittering dispute about the Indians need not be cited, since the following items of American evidence do ample justice to both sides.

in Occurrences 132%

An item in an evening paper states that "a man near Syracuse recently cut his throat with a scythe.

for Occurrences 30%

" Mr. Merrick returned to the farm, while Arthur drove Louise over to Huntingdon to gather items for the paper, and Patsy and Beth sat in the office arranging copy.

on Occurrences 23%

but before we come to that very interesting item on our program, we are going to hear from Pearl Watson.

from Occurrences 18%

Of course you will discard some items from this list as being too learned for your purposes.

to Occurrences 10%

I was complimented by both the learned pundits, as though I had added a great item to the aggregate of human knowledge.

as Occurrences 8%

What man would care to read his name between the lines of such a news item as this?

about Occurrences 5%

I told the Times man on the waterfront over the telephone, five minutes before we sailed, to make a personal item about how the Rev. Luther Meeker, missionary, would sail next week for Hong-Kong in the Taming, and to tell the shipping-office to reserve a ticket for me.

by Occurrences 4%

It is difficult to point out item by item, as it were, the difference between the three cases; but you will say, gentlemen, whether they were not all mixed up in this robberyit's for you, gentlemen, not for me.

without Occurrences 3%

By attending to the minute, we overlook the great; and in summing up an account, it will not do merely to insist on the number of items without considering their amount.

at Occurrences 2%

What's the heaviest item?" "T'e greates' item at present iss t'e chef.

under Occurrences 2%

The first item under this head is access to the ocean, which is the great road-space and highway of the world.

with Occurrences 2%

" "When I consider how oft we eat the bread of affliction, when one runs over the catalogue of all the cross reckonings and sorrowful items with which the heart of man is overcharged, 'tis wonderful by what hidden resources the mind is enabled to stand it out, and bear itself up, as it does, against the impositions laid upon our nature.

like Occurrences 2%

Some are short items like the following:"Pepinster, 12th August.

over Occurrences 1%

I had a correspondent who happened to fly to Bombay in the morning, but that didn't stop him from sending me a news item over the phone.

per Occurrences 1%

A list of Roman officials, civil and military, throughout the empire has come down to us; in this listNotitia Dignitatem et Administratem, tam civilium quam militarium in partibus orientis et occidentisthe portion which relates to the Wall is headed, Item per lineam Valli"Also along the line of the Wall."

than Occurrences 1%

The fact that he published such a plan is more a curious antiquarian item than one of significance in the history of slavery.

against Occurrences 1%

If Jack had known that until his coming her wrist had been all right, and that it had not become disjointed until he rang the front door bell of the Barbett house, he might not have been so pleased as he entered the item against Judge Barbett in his book, nor would he have wondered at the lack of inflammation.

towards Occurrences 1%

With a view to contributing some modest item towards the supper programme, I shoved the other bottle of champagne into my pocket, and then lighting a cigar, locked up the place, and set off for the creek by my usual route.

during Occurrences 1%

And then, in her sprightliest manner, and with every sign of enjoyment, she went on to an item during the reading of which I think we both flushed a little, Solon and I: "The United States Is "Some grammar sharp down East says you must say 'The United States are.'

after Occurrences 1%

Rossetti touches it through his original, Keats; Arnold through Goethe and Byron; Browning first through Shelley and then in item after item of his varied subject-matter.

into Occurrences 1%

The sharp peal of the bell produced Mr. Luke Tulliver, who emerged from a little den in a corner at the back of the shop, where he had been engaged copying items into a stock-book by the light of a solitary tallow-candle.

around Occurrences 1%

The salt tax was the top budget item around A.D. 900.

among Occurrences 1%

On April 26, 1899, the governor of Iloilo published the following remarkable news items among others: "Pavia, April 6th, 1899.

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