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in Occurrences 9982%

Besides, as I reassured myself, the cellars were really the most unlikely places in which to come across anything dangerous; considering that they can be entered, only through a heavy oaken door, the key of which, I carry always on my person.

of Occurrences 8340%

It was thus, that I came to the place of the Sea of Sleepso she termed it, in her dear speech with me.

on Occurrences 3005%

I wish to place on record the proceedings in heaven 1 October 13 last, of the new year which begins this auspicious age.

for Occurrences 2396%

"Look you," he said with decision, "I would not spend the night in that place for all the wealth that the world holds.

at Occurrences 2043%

For a couple of centuries, this house has had a reputation, a bad one, and, until I bought it, for more than eighty years no one had lived here; consequently, I got the old place at a ridiculously low figure.

to Occurrences 1174%

Not all the voices that call men from place to place are audible ones.

with Occurrences 930%

Startled, I leapt backward, letting the trap fall, with a hollow clang, that filled the place with echoes.

under Occurrences 671%

He may be placed under a rain of ethical and philosophic ideas, and may be forced to put on a System of Thought, as men put on a mackintosh.

as Occurrences 622%

I regard these places as in some sort my private property, and I mention them privately and in confidence to the reader, trusting that my right will be respected.

between Occurrences 542%

Around this dam is the last carrying place between this and Mud Lake, over which our boatmen trudged with their boats, like great turtles with their shells upon their backs.

before Occurrences 525%

The Church is drawing hosts of young people under the shelter of its teaching, and is placing before men and women ideals which cannot fail to make their mark upon the social standards of the times.

among Occurrences 508%

Ancient custom, as well as my noble estate, had reserved for me a prominent place among the other ladies.

by Occurrences 375%

He had stumbled on the place by mere chance the year previously, during the course of a long walking tour, and discovered the possibilities for the angler in a small and unnamed river that runs past the outskirts of the little village.

from Occurrences 359%

And yet, with the feeling, there was a sensation that, now, I should never learn anything further, of the place from which those dreadful Things had come.

like Occurrences 298%

The sounds that come upon the ear during the night in a far off place like this, are peculiar.

near Occurrences 251%

In April, after suffering intensely from constant illness, he got to a place near Lake Bemba; and here he told his followers to build a hut for him to die in.

within Occurrences 247%

" No translation into English of La Fiammetta has been made since Shakespeare's timewhen a small edition was published, which is now so rare as to be practically unattainableuntil the appearance of the present Scholarly and poetic rendering, which places within the reach of all one of the world's greatest masterpieces of literature.

over Occurrences 239%

Tall art there is, and enough of it "at that;" but of high art we have none to speak of, except the canvases that are placed over doorways in the galleries of the Academy, and, in the sense of elevation, may consequently be spoken of as high.

beside Occurrences 173%

Flossie is placed beside her.

without Occurrences 170%

He insisted that the burglary should take place without delay.

during Occurrences 149%

Until the Giants made their last visit to Pittsburgh in the month of August the western team threatened to come through with a finish, which would give them a chance to swing into first place during the month of September, but the series between New York and Pittsburgh turned the scale against the latter.

than Occurrences 145%

To fill a niche in a heart, or a niche in each of a thousand hearts,either a holier place than that of the poet, who lives in the imagination he renders restless, or that of the hero, who renders the mind more restless still for his suggestion of the glory which may surround a name, a glory rather to be dreaded than desired,too often, in such cases, must evil be done or tolerated that good may be brought forth.

of Occurrences 131%

4. The Church needs a better system for the proper placing of men.

after Occurrences 123%

See, in No. 22, how illness disturbed the fine action of this splendid organism; but illness did not prevent attention to detailthe dot is placed after the D. [Illustration: NO. 23.WRITTEN NOV. 1, 1860.]

about Occurrences 119%

There are two more; one at the bottom of the door; the other, a massive affair, is placed about the middle.

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