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The butternut-tree spreads its broad branches above the stream.
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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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If we put the animal on its back in a rock-pool we shall see the tube-feet at work.
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The poet was riding out one day with a few attendants--some say walking out in a fit of absence of mind--when he found himself in the midst of a band of outlaws, who, in a suspicious manner, barely suffered him to pass.
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Farmers must raise fruit and vegetables instead of wheat.
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On the 10th, a great battle will be fought, which will begin at four of the clock in the afternoon, and last until nine at night, with great obstinacy, but no very decisive event.
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If the Chancellor should dissolve the injunction on this ground, that will show Lord B. that he must expect no more copyright money for such things, and that they are too bad for law to uphold.
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Faster at every step the beast is going, Increasing evermore until it smites him, And leaves the body vilely mutilated.
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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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My friend, how long since did you sell that bag?
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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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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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I have not said a word of that kind.
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Mr. Charles Ovens saw the notice.
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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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First the elastic tops of the arches begin to appear, then one branch after another, each springing loose with a gentle rustling sound, and at length the whole tree, with the assistance of the winds, gradually unbends and rises and settles back into its place in the warm air, as dry and feathery and fresh as young ferns just out of the coil.
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There is not much to see, however, either within it or around it; there are no trees--not even a palm tree--only pasturages and fields of cereals, watered by a narrow stream.
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"It is the lower half of a trunk which the police dredged out of a rather deep pond on the skirts of the forest at Loughton--Staple's Pond, it is called.
