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in Occurrences 49%

The little immigrants flourished and multiplied in the bountiful pastures of the Santa Clara Valley, sending off three swarms the first season.

by Occurrences 37%

These "zoospores" conjugate in pairs, and give rise to quiescent bodies, which multiply by division, find eventually pass into the active state.

with Occurrences 26%

They multiply with great rapidity by giving off minute buds, which soon attain the size of their parent, and then either become detached or remain united, forming the compound globules of which Leeuwenhoek speaks, though the constancy of their arrangement in sixes existed only in the worthy Dutchman's imagination.

to Occurrences 25%

From this small beginning the bees gradually multiplied to about 3000 swarms in the year 1873.

without Occurrences 10%

It has been declared, that in consequence of this law, by which the use of distilled liquors is intended to be restrained, the retailers of them will be multiplied, and multiplied without end; till the corruption, which is already too extensive, is become general, and the nation is transformed into a herd of drunkards.

into Occurrences 10%

Though the inferior subnormals multiply into great sheep majorities, and the careerists, like Napoleon, morbid variants, involve millions in their disease, the idea of freedom persists obstinately.

beyond Occurrences 8%

And yet with all the contempt and derision that has been poured upon this singular delusion, its devotees have multiplied beyond all precedent in the history of the world.

as Occurrences 8%

Instead of one revelation, they might be multiplied as the drops of the morning!

under Occurrences 5%

So rapidly did places of worship multiply under the Countess's fostering care, that very shortly after the opening of the Vineyards at Bath, the question of supplying preachers for their pulpits became so pressing that finally the scheme of founding a college for the training of suitable preachers took definite shape.

like Occurrences 5%

If his name could be multiplied like his countenance, it might fill a play-bill.

on Occurrences 4%

This time men began to multiply on the earth, and the children of God, that is to say of Seth, as religious, saw the daughters of men, that is to say of Cain, and took them to their wives.

for Occurrences 4%

In turn, it bore fruit in miseries and horrors multiplied for millions, like those of the child lacemakers of Mid-Victorian England, who were dragged from their beds at two or three o'clock in the morning to work until ten or eleven at night in the services of a stock company.

at Occurrences 3%

Once pitted against the capitalists during the Administration of Andrew Jackson the working classes learned to think that their interests differed materially from those of the rich, whose privileges had multiplied at the expense of the poor.

from Occurrences 3%

Cantava nel partir la gioventù," which is never very far from the lips of any Italian soldier, and those endless stornelli, which to an invariable tune they multiply from day to day.

of Occurrences 3%

He that has his hand well put in this mittaine; He shall have multiplying of his graine, When he hath sowen, be it wheat or otes; So that he offer good pens or grotes!

about Occurrences 2%

For this first principle is all things prior to all: and many principles are multiplied about the one principle, and in the one goodness, many goodnesses are established.

among Occurrences 2%

In the peaceable reign of king James, those minds which might, perhaps, with less disturbance of the world, have been engrossed by war, were employed in controversy; and writings of all kinds were multiplied among us.

during Occurrences 2%

The credulity of the age grafted on this stock the notion of giants, enchanters, dragons, spells [f], and a thousand wonders, which still multiplied during the time of the crusades; when men, returning from so great a distance, used the liberty of imposing every fiction on their believing audience.

around Occurrences 2%

The enemy's forces multiplied around Newark, and the Scots were advancing to join the blockade.

over Occurrences 2%

Proofs of this were seen in the improvements of agriculture, in the successful enterprises of commerce, in the progress of manufactures and useful arts, in the increase of the public revenue and the use made of it in reducing the public debt, and in the valuable works and establishments everywhere multiplying over the face of our land.

round Occurrences 2%

An hour after, the accursed race are multiplying round him, more numerous and more ravenous than ever.

unto Occurrences 2%

" "Peace be multiplied unto thee," said the beggar, and departed.

between Occurrences 2%

Henry, laying hold of so plausible a pretence, resolved to push the clergy with regard to all their privileges, which they had raised to an enormous height, and to determine at once those controversies, which daily multiplied between the civil and the ecclesiastical jurisdictions.

past Occurrences 1%

To John Wesley the field was now indeed "the world," and his labours were multiplying past his strength.

after Occurrences 1%

Their meetings multiplied after this, at Rodolphe's chateau and in the health officer's garden.

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