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of Occurrences 1834%

There is another problem, which affects nearly all married women, and therefore a large section of the human race.

on Occurrences 95%

When the railway was in running order trains had to run the gauntlet of shell-fire on this section on bright moonlight nights, and no camouflage could hide them.

in Occurrences 88%

When a representative major league team is made up of players who represent every section in the Union, engaged for their skill, it seems as if Base Ball has become nearer an ideal and a national pastime than ever before in the history of the sport.

for Occurrences 34%

It was felled to procure a section for exhibition, and thus an opportunity was given to count its annual rings of growth.

by Occurrences 33%

The older faces were, moreover, strangely blurred and divided into sections by furrows that looked like the cleavage-joints of rocks, suggesting exposure on the mountains in a castaway condition for ages.

from Occurrences 27%

Midshipman Dalzell now marched the section from the furnace room, and dismissed it.

to Occurrences 25%

In the second edition of the "Règne Animal," published in 1828, Cuvier devotes a special section to the "Division of Organised Beings into Animals and Vegetables," in which the question is treated with that comprehensiveness of knowledge and clear critical judgment which characterise his writings, and justify us in regarding them as representative expressions of the most extensive, if not the profoundest, knowledge of his time.

as Occurrences 16%

As the winter advances, the air-tubes of the lungs, and the lungs themselves, are liable to become the seat of disorder; and those signs will present themselves, which have been pointed out in the previous section as characteristic of such attacks.

with Occurrences 15%

Every performer was in his or her section in the sleeper, and pa and I got an end section with the freaks, the fat woman across the aisle from us.

at Occurrences 14%

The lonely old negro at the supper table A new immigrant gazing out upon the ocean he has crossed The downtown section at closing hour

through Occurrences 13%

The sun gave birth to a network of sweet-voiced rills that ran gracefully down the glacier, curling and swirling in their shining channels, and cutting clear sections through the porous surface-ice into the solid blue, where the structure of the glacier was beautifully illustrated.

into Occurrences 10%

For miles the country was level with here and there arroyos cross-sectioning into the river valley.

under Occurrences 8%

But the section under which mere promotion of disaffection is a crime.

than Occurrences 5%

If money is your object, seek out a citizen of some other section than mine; for the South is out of funds just now, owing to the military outrages of Northern scorpions.

near Occurrences 4%

Their cross-section near the base is somewhat triangular in outline, and flattened toward the tip.

without Occurrences 3%

per square inch of section, or about 12,000 lbs. per square inch of section without permanent derangement of structure. 301.

after Occurrences 3%

To gain their ends in one or another of these frivolous quarrels, each party in turn admitted to political influence section after section of what you call the proletariat; till in the year 3278 universal suffrage was granted, every man and woman over the age of twelve years being entitled to a single and equal vote.

before Occurrences 3%

MR. SHERMAN would agree to such a reconsideration; but did not see the necessity of postponing the section before the House.

within Occurrences 3%

On the local superintendents appointed by the county councils is devolved the duty of apportioning the legislative grant among the school sections within the county, of inspecting the schools, and reporting upon them to the chief superintendent.

about Occurrences 3%

To conclude what I have said in this section about Michelangelo's method of working on the marble, I must confirm what I have stated about his using both left and right hand while chiselling.

over Occurrences 2%

Present conditions indicate that the spirit which dominated slavery still curses the fair section over which that institution spread its blight.

between Occurrences 2%

Popof was on duty on the section between Mikhailov and Kizil Arvat when the line openeda section which was begun in the December of 1880 and finished in ten months, in November, 1881.

out Occurrences 2%

I ordered the section out of the gully, and ran across the open to a bit of old trench I saw in the field.

along Occurrences 2%

However, the exigencies of making a geological and topographical cross section along the 73d meridian through a practically unknown region, and across one of the highest passes in the Andes (17,633 ft.), had delayed the surveying party to such an extent as to make it impossible for them to reach Coropuna before the first of November.

like Occurrences 2%

You rise through Sea Cliff, a residence section like a hanging garden over the ocean, and come to Lincoln Park, where the flagstaff that marks the terminus of the Lincoln Highway, the end of a transcontinental trail, is set.

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