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Having been, for several years, a director on the Birmingham and London Railway, I felt some interest in these inquiries, and came to the conclusion, that there are several arrangements of economy, and some of convenience, in the construction and working of railways, which the English might borrow with advantage from the United States.
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Besides, after he had once come to a determination, he was impatient to see Alice and implore her forgiveness.
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By so doing, however, we shall provide, in the eyes of the German nation, a complete justification of William II.
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Tom, who had been brought up in his father's profession, was of that bull-terrier type so common in England; sturdy, middle-sized, deep-chested, broad-shouldered, his face full of shrewdness and good nature, and of humour withal.
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When I talked over these incidents with my wife, as we gave each other the narrative of our day's experiences, she was greatly distressed, as may be supposed. '
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I wish you all happiness, and I thank you for the many kind things you have said, for the good advice you have given me.
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Never had I needed a friend more, and never had I been more constrained in my greeting.
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Sheila held out her hand to Mr. James Greely, who took it with a surprised and dazzled look.
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So long as we remained in France his humour was like this, delicate and expansive, but an accidental allusion led us across the Channel when he changed.
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Simpson, puzzled, amazed, and a little scared at last, had barely time to notice the position before it dissolved.
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On the evening of the day when she was buried, a rich man went, not to Pilate, but to the cure of the place.
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Gloom deepened and had no light to relieve it, men supped full of horrors--there was no slackening of the tension, no concession to overwrought nerves, no resting-place for the overwrought soul.
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It must have been her hand that had struck down the old man, yet she had made no effort to release Turan from his prison.
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It was a folly, I confess, but I often lamented they were not such; the travelling for thousands of miles, without meeting any nobler trace of the ages that are passed, than a mass of rotten leaves, or a fragment of fallen rock, produces a heavy, earthly matter-of-fact effect upon the imagination, which can hardly be described, and for which the greatest beauty of scenery can furnish only an occasional and transitory remedy.
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I have not said a word of that kind.
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Mr. Charles Ovens saw the notice.
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glanced at "Tartarin" with a smile, and tossed it back into the bag, at letters and passport, said it must be very interesting to see both sides, and so, after a question or two, to the train for Koln.
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The time of our visit was in the dry season, which lasts from October till April, and alternates with the wet one, from May till September.
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The writer does not know if it had ever been designed that young Seaton should proceed from Ogilvie's classes to the more systematic courses of a college.
