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of Occurrences 9533%

I have decided to start a kind of diary; it may enable me to record some of the thoughts and feelings that I cannot express to anyone; but, beyond this, I am anxious to make some record of the strange things that I have heard and seen, during many years of loneliness, in this weird old building.

in Occurrences 2657%

We had just established ourselves in Paris, after having lived seven years in Rome.

after Occurrences 1623%

For many years after the war the German military attache returned from the review unobserved in a shut carriage, couldn't run the risk of an angry or insulting word from some one in the crowd, and still later, fifteen years after the war, when W. was ambassador in England, I was godmother of the daughter of a German-English cousin living in London.

before Occurrences 789%

This house had been empty for a great while; years before histhe ancient man'sbirth.

to Occurrences 747%

A baby's care does not stop on the Sabbath, and the average mother is practically on duty, at least over-seeing, day and night, twenty-four hours out of the twenty-four, from one end of the year to the other, no matter how many maids and nurses she may have in her employ!

at Occurrences 662%

We got very little country life during those years at the Foreign Office.

from Occurrences 505%

That is about fourteen years from now.

for Occurrences 502%

VII THE BERLIN CONGRESS Seventy-eight was a most important year for us in many ways.

with Occurrences 478%

THE SOCIAL SIDE All sorts of interesting people came to see us at the Ministry of Public Instruction,among others the late Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro de Bragance, who spent some months in Paris that year with his daughter, the young Comtesse d'Eu.

on Occurrences 352%

Take a class in a college settlement, make some bibs for a day nursery, give tramps a C.O.S. card, with one's compliments, and attend about six lectures a year on Philanthropythe lectures very good indeed.

by Occurrences 343%

But through these centuries of change, the Church of God has risen stronger, more powerful year by year; stretching its arm out to the uttermost parts of the earth; levying tribute on the islands of the sea; enlisting all ages and conditions, and looking out over coming generationsnot as a waning, but as a growing and ever-increasing power.

AS Occurrences 263%

IRST YEARS AS A FRENCHWOMAN

without Occurrences 188%

They were too poor to marry, and so continued in flocks all through the year without attempting to rear young.

under Occurrences 95%

In its first year under the new management the team was not in condition to make a good fight, but the next year it was ready and since then has won four National League championships and one World's Championship.

between Occurrences 92%

See also, for the best account of this battle and other events of the year between Wolfe's victory and the surrender of Montreal, The Fall of Canada, by George M. Wrong.

among Occurrences 75%

The Major has kindly offered me a horse, but I don't know how I'll stand the ride, for I haven't done any riding lately; but when I was a young man I spent several years among the fur companies of the Northwest, and was a good rider and an excellent shot.

during Occurrences 72%

Long after the last real chance had utterly vanished, I pleased myself with the fond illusion that somewhere on the waste of waters she was still floating, and there were years during which I never heard the sound of the great guns booming inland from the Navy-yard without saying to myself, "The Wasp has come!"

past Occurrences 72%

The Friendly Genii Do you not confess yourself to be several years past that time of greenest youth when burnt cork holds its greatest charm?

than Occurrences 64%

With the exception of little spots not visible in general views, the entire surface is covered with them, massed in close hedge growth, sweeping gracefully down into every gorge and hollow, and swelling over every ridge and summit in shaggy, ungovernable exuberance, offering more honey to the acre for half the year than the most crowded clover-field.

into Occurrences 45%

Six feet in his gymnasium shoes, and with a ripple of muscle beneath the well-fitting, well-advertised Campus Coat for College Men, he had emerged from the three years into man's complete estate, which, at nineteen, is that patch of territory at youth's feet known as "the world."

out Occurrences 36%

Don't let us foolishly throw away a year out of the days which will be vouchsafed us together.

through Occurrences 33%

In the course of a trip I made during the summer of that year through Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties, the deplorable effects of the drought were everywhere visibleleafless fields, dead and dying cattle, dead bees, and half-dead people with dusty, doleful faces.

behind Occurrences 31%

I would he had been with us last year behind the walls of Fort Necessity.

over Occurrences 30%

ROOSEVELT,My first letter you will perhaps remember took us to the Visitors' Château of G.H.Q. and left us alighting there, to be greeted by the same courteous host, Captain, who presided last year over another Guest House far away.

against Occurrences 26%

It is necessary also to observe that at the time when the Inquisition was established the war of eight hundred years against the Moors was not yet finished.

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