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of Occurrences 829%

After that day, we enjoyed our holiday to the utmost; though both of us looked forward to the time when our driver should come; for we were tremendously anxious to inquire of him, and through him among the people of the tiny hamlet, whether any of them could give us information about that strange garden, lying away by itself in the heart of an almost unknown tract of country.

on Occurrences 65%

So great was her interest in Sabbath observance that she wrote a little tract on the subject.

in Occurrences 65%

It used to be considered a tract in one's experience, and now it is perceived to be all of lifeits impetus, its central moving force, the reason for being, activity, development, for ethical conduct, and for unselfish and joyous helpfulness.

for Occurrences 39%

(Tracts for the Times, No. 75.

to Occurrences 18%

As a single instanceIt is a provable and proven factas you may see from Mr. Ramsay's survey of North Walesthat over a large tract to the south of Snowdon, between Port Madoc and Barmouth, there has been ground off and carried away a mass of solid rock 20,000 feet thick; thick enough, in fact, if it were there still, to make a range of mountains as high as the Andes.

by Occurrences 17%

There is something almost like premeditation in the avoidance of cultivated tracts by certain plants of water borders.

with Occurrences 8%

To distant climes, a dreary scene, Where half the convex world intrudes between, Through torrid tracts with fainting steps they go, Where wild Altama murmurs to their woe.

against Occurrences 8%

In the time of the public troubles, Mr. Drummond, besides composing his history, wrote several tracts against the measures of the covenanters, and those engaged in the opposition of Charles I.

from Occurrences 8%

We also gave books to several we met with, who began eagerly to read them aloud, and soon obtained hearers, so that it became a highly interesting scene: boys who received tracts from us showed them to others, and numbers crowded about us, even to the lust moment of our stay.

between Occurrences 4%

For some distance his route lay along a level plain; but on arriving at the tract between the curve of the upper part of that stream and the sources of the Ems, the country assumes a very different character; and here, in the territory of the modern little principality of Lippe, it was that Arminius had fixed the scene of his enterprise.

before Occurrences 4%

It is curious and instructive to observe the various dispositions of the people in the dark places through, which we pass: sometimes they are so fanatical as to tear a tract before our face; others receive them with joy.

at Occurrences 4%

In 1815 he wrote to Dr. Carey, asking if he could print some Burmese tracts at the Serampore press; the doctor replied that it would be far better for Judson to start a press of his own in Rangoon, and in order that he might do so he sent him a complete outfit, including a press, a supply of type, and other necessary stock.

along Occurrences 4%

Still another incident of the periodthat of the warwill be recorded here in the words of the Rev. J. William Jones, who relates it: "Not long before the evacuation of Petersburg, the writer was one day distributing tracts along the trenches, when he perceived a brilliant cavalcade approaching.

as Occurrences 4%

You are quite at liberty to print and circulate such tracts as these.

under Occurrences 3%

"The labourer is worthy of his hire; and no doubt Sir Stephen Orme, by bringing vast tracts under the beneficent influence of civilisation, merits the approval of his sovereign and a substantial reward at the hands of his fellow-subjects.

about Occurrences 3%

I sat there for a while, thinking over Ernest's story, which had, it seemed to me, something of the tract about it.

into Occurrences 3%

A number of people in Rangoon knew only that language, so she learned it sufficiently well to be able to converse with them, and to translate a gospel and several tracts into their tongue.

after Occurrences 2%

"I could write tract after tract on temperance," he said, bitterly.

without Occurrences 1%

Thus was made the road through the great Almenningthe common tracts without an owner; no-man's-land.

around Occurrences 1%

This whole town, with a large tract around it, not even excepting the bones of our progenitors, has been sold to a stranger.

behind Occurrences 1%

On the tract behind Maguiring I counted, in three-quarters of an hour, five considerable estuaries, that is to say, above twenty feet broad; and then, as far as Goa, twenty-six more; altogether, thirty-one: but there are more, as I did not include the smallest; and yet the distance between Maguiring and Goa, in a straight line, does not exceed three miles.

herewith Occurrences 1%

These, however, are matters which are more fully entered into by Swift himself in the tracts herewith reprinted, and in the notes prefixed to them by the editor.

near Occurrences 1%

The envoys reported the sad news in their own camp, and three days afterwards, July 30, a great battle took place between the Kymrians and the Romans in the Raudine Plains, a large tract near Verceil.

over Occurrences 1%

To the south of the Loire it spread nearly as far as la Rochelle; and as in this part also it extended nearly to Angers, the tract over which it spread its ravages formed nearly a square.

through Occurrences 1%

He is charged with the duty of administering $7,000,000 worth of friar lands, and the whole public domain of the Philippine Islands, and with such minor duties as the checkmating of the machinations of numerous wealthy Filipinos who seek fraudulently to acquire great tracts through fraudulent claims to unperfected titles and by other improper means.

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