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Physical peculiarities of the MoonCelestial phenomena Farther description of the LunariansNational prejudiceLightness of bodiesThe Brahmin carries Atterley to sup with a philosopher His character and opinions.

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But it was a good two hours before he reappeared, and the landlord, who met him with the news that the missing suit-case had been awaiting him in his room since twenty minutes past ten, was struck by a certain peculiarity in his manner.

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But it is a singular circumstance that only one of the forms figured by Mr. Macdonald is at all like a Globigerina, and there are some peculiarities about even this which make me greatly doubt its affinity with that genus.

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Notwithstanding all these little peculiarities, peculiarities as respects every one but those who dwelt in his own province, Mr. Dodge had also taken up the notion of his superiority on the subject of language, and always treated the matter as one that was placed quite beyond dispute, by its publicity and truth.

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Smollett was a physician, of eccentric manners and ferocious instincts, who developed his unnatural peculiarities by going as a surgeon on a battleship, where he seems to have picked up all the evils of the navy and of the medical profession to use later in his novels.

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His piety Begins to preach His success at Florence Peculiarities of his eloquence Death of Lorenzo

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" "That is not an uncommon peculiarity with testators," Thorndyke remarked.

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To "adapt" this novel peculiarity to American practice, without some little violation of probability, is what the present conscientious Adapter finds almost the artistic requirement of his task.

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It will become the heart of Europe, not by melting North Germany into a Southern frame, or the South into a Northern; not by absorbing historical peculiarities into a centralized omnipotence; not by mixing all in one State, but by federating several sovereign States into a Union like yours.

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The taking of decisive action, however, was one of his striking peculiarities from youth to old age, and he promptly decided, after consulting the Urim and Thummim, to go at once to Hebron, the ancient sacred city of the tribe of Judah, and there await the course of events.

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Annotations and IllustrationsPortraits of Heroes of the War in the Army and Navy, and of the Highest Public ResponsibilitiesAdmirals and Generals, the President and CabinetPhotographs of Scenes and IncidentsThe Characteristics of the FilipinosTheir Homes, Dresses and Peculiarities in Sun PicturesThe Picturesque People of Our New Possessions CHAPTER XXV. CUBA AND PORTO RICO.

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The volumes before us are much more strongly marked by its peculiarities than any former publication of the fraternity.

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Lord Melcombe was an aristocratic Dombey: stultified by his own self-complacency, he dared to exhibit his peculiarities before the English Aristophanes.

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Perhaps I should apologise for saying even the little I have said of the Dean's pedigree; but while I press into my service the country of his birth and breeding, and the local peculiarities amongst which his life was spent, as possibly having some influence on his character, I could not resist the wish to show another element, drawn from his ancestry, that went to the forming of that character.

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The difference in the appearance of the birds is evident to the most superficial observer; but to call the one Strigidae and the other Falconidae tells us nothing of the anatomical peculiarities on which this difference is founded.

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Influence of Personal Peculiarities on Ethical Convictions.

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The greatest peculiarity among these people is their mode of dressing the hair; it is usually shaved off the temples and occasionally a little way up the forehead, then combed out at length, and tied midway with a string, leaving one part straight, and the remainder frizzled out into a mop projecting horizontally backwards.

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Her peculiarities under the trustee régime were gone but not forgotten.

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Fortunately, the wind was fair, and in a few days we came in sight of Marblehead, which had lost none of its peculiarities during our absence.

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