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into Occurrences 1424%

The Brahmin suggested that they might be currents; which brought to my memory Dr. Franklin's conjecture on the subject, now completely verified by this circular line of vapour, as it had been previously rendered probable by the floating substances, which had been occasionally picked up, at great distances from the places where they had been thrown into the ocean.

on Occurrences 305%

What care we? 'Til the jolly man-o'-war shot the pirate's mast away, Down on the coast of the high Barbare-e-e." I saw near me a live coal dislodged from the fire when Thrackles had thrown on the armful of wood.

in Occurrences 259%

The only result I gained was to get myself well gagged with my own pocket handkerchief, and thrown in a hollow between the dunes.

over Occurrences 225%

Her bed was made of a few sticks with some corn shucks thrown over them.

from Occurrences 204%

"Our party were greatly amused at the disputations of a learned society in Europe, in which they undertook to give a mathematical demonstration that they could not be thrown from a volcano of the earth, nor from the moon, but were suddenly formed in the atmosphere.

to Occurrences 186%

There was a grand machine for roasting, that carried the fire round the meat, the juices of which, he said, by a rotary motion, would be thrown to the surface, and either evaporate or be deteriorated.

at Occurrences 165%

He was so sensible always in his intercourse with the official world, quite realised that the position was difficult and trying for Madame Grevyit would have been for any one thrown at once without any preparation into such perfectly different surroundings.

out Occurrences 126%

And then again, when the pipe itself falls from the teeth, or the table, or the mantel, or the shelfas fall it surely will, sooner or laterand is broken, and the fragments are thrown out of the window, or swept out at the door, who can fail to see in this, the type of life's closing scene?

across Occurrences 86%

In addition some chemical drip had thrown across its vividness long gauzy streamers of white.

of Occurrences 85%

But in the world there are other men, no taller than I, no older than Imen born within a stone's throw of where I was bornwhose hand is on the fate of nations, and whose decrees are universal law!

around Occurrences 63%

The principal fact of congratulation lies in the safeguards and provisions which have been thrown around the players of the minor leagues and in the equitable and just measures which have been agreed upon to provide for their future.

with Occurrences 55%

I have never been thrown with the Japaneseam told they are extraordinarily intelligent.

about Occurrences 51%

With what kind Care she did prevent my Arm, Which (greedy of the last sad-parting twine) I wou'd have thrown about him, as if she knew To what intent I made the passionate Offer?

against Occurrences 30%

Some years before, when the river had been in flood, its current had been thrown against this bank by a landslide on the other side, and had washed away trees and underbrush for some distance.

for Occurrences 29%

In the following April Levis made his desperate throw for victory; and actually did succeed in defeating Murray outside the walls of Quebec.

among Occurrences 23%

And then, before we could rush from the room where we had been so shamefully duped, the head of A.R.R. appeared at a little window in the partition-wall, and he called out: "Gentlemen, this mixture is, as my initials declare, a Radical Relief, and retails at one dollar per bottle, I hope you will take some of my circulars home with you," and he threw among the crowd the package of circulars which he had held in his hand.

off Occurrences 17%

Wine whets the wit, improves its native force, And gives a pleasant flavour to discourse; By making all our spirits debonair, Throws off the lees and sediment of care.

after Occurrences 16%

Her head went up like a stag's to the passing of a band in the street, or a glance thrown after her, or the contemplation of her own freshly washed yellow hair in the sunlight.

down Occurrences 13%

" He throws down the stump of the pen and bounces up.

under Occurrences 12%

He paid no attention to the meat that was thrown under his nose.

like Occurrences 10%

There too was the wild man, coiled up like a sleeping dog, his head pillowed on the foal's neck, and the hair of his great shaggy beard thrown like a blanket over Martin.

before Occurrences 9%

That the imagination of Jane would supply her lover with those qualities she most honored herself, she believed was taken as a matter of course; and that when the veil she had helped to throw before her own eyes was removed, she would cease to respect, and of course cease to love him, when too late to remedy the evil, she greatly feared.

through Occurrences 8%

The coats of the spores contain so much resinous matter, that a pinch of Lycopodium powder, thrown through the flame of a candle, burns with an instantaneous flash, which has long done duty for lightning on the stage.

between Occurrences 7%

No meadows thrown between, the giddy steeps Tower, bare or sylvan, from the narrow deeps.

as Occurrences 6%

The romantic interest of the early and irrelate incidents (last night of Troy, &c.) is thrown as an affluent into the general river of the personal narrative, whilst yet the capital current of the epos, as unfolding ihe origin and incunabula of Rome, is not for a moment suffered to be modified by events so subordinate and so obliquely introduced.

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