Four Sentence Examples

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  • We actually have four children now.

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  • He's four years older than I am.

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  • In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps.

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  • They might call a halt here or we'll have to do another four miles without eating.

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  • I don't mean the four attempts on the one case.

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  • Anyway, we'll reach Ashley in four or five more days.

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  • A lot can happen in four or five days.

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  • Financially, they think it's a sound move to have four people share the rent.

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  • Do you know he has over four million in savings?

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  • Cats have four legs.

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  • Four and a half acres contained a barn larger than the LeBlanc's Peabody home, beautiful gardens and plush lawn.

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  • I'll be gone four weeks.

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  • He contacted Mr. Tim when I was four, after my mother died.

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  • Four of the five vamps he'd chosen as bodyguards were exchanging looks of derision behind his back, and the vamp he tried to interrogate was openly ridiculing him.

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  • The four stared at her.

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  • Jackson was one of four siblings.

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  • Four more days and they would be in Ashley.

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  • She's only four months old, for God's sake!

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  • Jake wiped his mouth the way he did when he'd admitted to cheating on her four years ago.

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  • By the time they found out what it was, she'd probably be near dead, like stage four cancer.

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  • The quarterly conference held four times a century with the highest ranking station commanders was coming up soon, and he had more pressing issues to resolve before it launched.

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  • The four stared at him.

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  • Yes. And how they got divorced, my grandfather four times over.

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  • It was not likely for the paths of a soldier and a member of the political elite to cross paths, but he was the closest thing she had ever had to a friend since leaving her home at the age of four.

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  • The four men were clean, neatly dressed, and without the signs of lack of sleep or food that Brady's men displayed.

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  • Brady strode from the private room into a common area, where two of his four remaining men waited.

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  • The keys were located all over the world, except for four of them, which were based here in the command center.

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  • All four were there.

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  • Between four and five in the afternoon, having made all his calls, he was returning to Bilibin's house thinking out a letter to his father about the battle and his visit to Brunn.

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  • I've been up since four.

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  • The four of us were put to shame in jeans and sweat shirts.

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  • Unfortunately, there were at least four where Howie's abilities could have been utilized.

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  • Quinn hasn't slept with me since month four or five.

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  • The LeBlanc house was by far the largest of our group, with four bedrooms, one designed as the nursery.

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  • It was a community where I could see Betsy and me raising children and watching grandchildren while four distinct seasons rolled slowly by, marking the years one by one.

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  • I've found four unsolved abductions over a six year period that look very close to his work.

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  • There are four bedrooms, two more than they need and I've peeked in each, even testing the bed in one.

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  • My frustration forced action of some sort so I picked up the phone and dialed Howie and Julie's room at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara.

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  • Four down; four to go.

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  • I had a couple of Sam Adams and a roast beef sandwich and arrived at the 30th Street station in Philadelphia just before four o'clock.

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  • You've got four or five days before you have to look over your shoulder again.

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  • The third room was for Howie who was busy on the telephone when four of us arrived.

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  • All four trips brought him back several years in the past.

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  • Four serial killers have been rendered permanently inoperative.

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  • But she was nine, and Jonny was even smaller at four.

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  • The sense grew stronger as she led them down the hall past a waiting room and nurse's station towards the quiet hallway lined by patients' rooms, each housing four to five patients.

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  • She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.

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  • She hopped off the four by four, reached out to Darian and grabbed his hand, pulling him with her.

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  • Within seconds, all four of them were watching her like lions a wounded gazelle.

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  • Deidre clenched her fists as the four surrounded her in the middle of the hallway.

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  • All four growled, hunger in their eyes.

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  • I made her a deal that expires in four days, thinking I could reverse the bond.

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  • His canines were four times the length of hers.

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  • The rocking chairs were back, four in a row, red, green, yellow, and purple, adding a blaze of color against the century-old white building of Bird Song.

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  • They stuck around, pretending to pick up glasses and snack plates while the Dawkins four quarreled, oblivious to their presence.

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  • It tells callers looking for reservations to call after four o'clock.

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  • There were four units in the building that faced the waterway and walking paths that wound along the banks of the river.

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  • She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.

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  • It was four o'clock and he'd just returned from Montrose to find Cynthia still damp from her shower.

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  • After a short wait, the four were seated in a booth and began to work on chips and salsa as the adults ordered drinks.

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  • All four Dawkinses joined the showing, which grew to include a widow from Texas, an Illinois couple with a sixyear-old and a handholding pair of seventy-something's with different last names.

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  • Monday was transition day at Bird Song, with the arrival of six new guests to fill three vacated rooms, with only the four Dawkins, Brandon Westlake, and Pumpkin Green staying on.

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  • The top was still off, allowing additional room, but he still felt three or four trips lay ahead.

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  • The other four trunks displayed like goods—a moth-eaten gorilla suit, two bloody collections of dresses, and an outfit Dean supposed Frankenstein wore when he went out for a little nightlife.

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  • The Dawkins have three rooms for four people.

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  • That would be reason enough why the bones went undiscovered for four decades.

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  • Just have two instead of four and you'll save half the calories.

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  • There, amid a cluster of floats, Boy Scouts and ballerinas, four of Fred's lady friends were in the final stages of hanging bunting about a beautiful old touring car whose vintage or name Dean couldn't identify.

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  • Fred O'Connor was in the living room, hosting three of the four Dawkins, with Ginger missing, when the Deans returned to their bed and breakfast.

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  • They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.

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  • In addition to the four Dawkins, there was Pumpkin Green, the grocery cart vagabond, and old Brandon Westlake, camera buff supreme.

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  • For ten bucks more, she was to cover Ridgway's four hundred citizens in the county's only other town, if you didn't count minuscule Colona, which most people didn't.

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  • Her hand shot out before Dean could see it, slapping him across the face so hard four finger prints glowed in red on his cheek.

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  • The Dawkins Four had apparently left and the newcomer guests were out seeing the town.

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  • We used to camp over on the Gunnison River, and fish some, all four of us.

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  • All four were thrilled at the prospect.

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  • Another four are missing, assumed in the underworld.

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  • Four demons lay dead in the living room of his house, while the Immortal had dragged himself into the garage.

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  • Maybe that tune will change when you lose your soul in four days.

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  • The Deidre he spent the night with and the Deidre who went to see Darkyn four days ago were very different.

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  • The phone rang four times and Carmen was ready to hang up when Katie answered.

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  • Instead of pointing to the four directions, its edges were lined with ancient symbols he took to be writing from the time-before-time.

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  • Deidre walked into one of four courtyards she'd discovered roaming the day before.

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  • Deidre gathered her composure with some difficulty and walked down the hallway, pausing four doors down to her room.

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  • The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

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  • Each of the four Sanctuaries sat on an island straddling the human and immortal worlds and housed an immortal treasure, such as the Oracle.

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  • Four stops later, she rose and tucked the book away, wading through the throngs of people to the door as the train slowed.

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  • She'd lived there for four years --almost as long as the kid had been alive.

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  • They made their way to a small group at one side of the bar and squeezed their way into a booth meant for four and already holding four.

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  • Last night, after he'd beheaded the four, she'd innately known he wouldn't hurt her.

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  • She crossed her arms, forcing herself not to cover her neck as four sets of eyes landed there.

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  • Small tables seating four were well spaced for privacy, with candles lighting each table and an assortment of flatware she'd never seen before.

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  • In four hundred thousand years, he hadn't learned to answer a phone right?

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  • Hannah warmly greeted her friends, four coiffed women in expensive clothing with diamonds the size of her thumbnail on their ring fingers.

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  • The four women looked at her, one gasping as her gaze fell to the tattoo and another paling, while the other two looked down their noses at her.

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  • All four women gasped in unison.

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  • They crossed unimpeded through the portal and onto the island Sanctuary, one of four such sites bridging the mortal and immortal worlds.

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  • She led them into a courtyard lined on all four sides with lopsided doors.

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  • There are four Sanctuaries.

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  • The fortress around the courtyard was four stories tall and lined with wooden doors indicating guest rooms.

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  • The cafeteria was four times the size of the one she was used to, and she lingered in the doorway, finally catching the attention of a convent member.

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  • Would there be lots of people there with four arms or something freakish?

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  • It's still more than four.

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  • The table top lit up with a blank grey screen and four dozen multi-hued buttons, with geometric symbols she assumed was writing.

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  • There was a quiet exchange between two of the four dark shapes around her.

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  • In the eighteen-nineties Ouray had three thousand people living in town, three or four times as many as today.

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  • Four letters mentioned Rev. Martin and the wonderful work he and Annie were doing with 'the poor mistaken souls.'

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  • Eight miles from Ouray, but still four miles from the summit of Red Mountain Pass, the road leveled out.

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  • Dean tried to picture the bustling town of a century past, at one time home to a dozen saloons, four restaurants, a newspaper, nearly three hundred houses and more than a thousand inhabitants.

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  • I've raced through nearly four thousand words just today!

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  • There were four five-dollar gold pieces and three two-dollar and fifty-cent coins.

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  • All four would ride in the same car for the fifty-mile trip to Telluride.

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  • The '97 and '99 are worth about four or five hundred each and the '79 should bring a thousand or more.

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  • Even if you were a hundred, you'd only have voted four times.

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  • A typical year saw four hundred inches of snow fall atop Red Mountain, a hundred and seventy-five inches in Ouray, and perhaps a foot in Montrose, all within fifty miles.

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  • Three or four miles from town, the roadway opened and he slowed, allowing the warmth of the day to soak into his stiff body.

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  • Then I looked up the Pinkville newspaper but it was merged into a countywide paper four years ago.

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  • They spent four days deep in the forest.

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  • Four of the music cabinets housed Jackson's works, the remaining two held other composers' music.

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  • A bakery box held four small French pastries.

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  • I sold nearly everything and even contracted four portrait commissions.

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  • A group of four coeds sat three rows in front of him whispering about the hot guy, until one got up the nerve to talk to him.

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  • Jackson joked, "You realize there are only four of us here?"

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  • I better start planning my menu, only four days left.

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  • She didn't move for four hours, yet her body slowly returned to its normal temperature.

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  • All four laughed and Connor quipped, "You need to make that your mantra darling."

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  • It would just be the four of them, and they all seemed pleased by that.

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  • No, why don't I meet you back here around four and we'll go out for dinner later.

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  • Huh, she was supposed to be back at four.

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  • Katie opened the barn door and let four goats into the dairy.

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  • It must be nice to only have a birthday once every four years.

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  • He left four weeks ago.

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  • Goats have two spigots instead of four, but the milking machinery is basically the same.

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  • She lunged frantically again, dragging Brutus nearly four feet this time.

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  • The phone rang four times before a sleepy male voice answered.

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  • All of the attacks occurred between three fifteen in the morning and four thirty.

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  • The locks will open at zero four twenty-five.

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  • The facility will rearm at four forty-nine exactly.

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  • It wasn't possible for four of them to be there while one was on its way up the mountain.

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  • Even so, four of the Horsemen—the ones based here—were missing.

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  • Four keypads gone with one making its way back to the command center.

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  • Four keys capable of destroying a continent—and winning a war—were taken under their noses.

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  • The timing on all four attacks was the same to the hundredth of a second.

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  • All four are missing.

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  • He'd heal four times faster than a normal human, but it wasn't fast enough.

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  • While Brady knew Lana was too afraid to leave his tent even if it wasn't guarded, he'd had to order Elise chained to a tree within view of four guards.

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  • Kelli waved her over to a small group of four.

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  • It took four strikes before the door caved with a crunch.

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  • There was no way she could do enough damage to Charlie from four times as far to allow her to escape.

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  • Four days left.  I take it you won't come to my rescue if he does.

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  • Four, maybe five.  He can test for it by cutting himself.

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  • Four days is long enough to wipe all of them out.

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  • He'd lost three days already.  Four was cutting it close.

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  • That meant making it into the underworld in four days.

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  • You cannot destroy this place or start a war with me before four days have passed.

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  • At least, she was for another four days.

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  • How do you know Katie will be alive in four days?

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  • Death.  She told me I couldn't destroy the world for four days and offered me Katie's life in exchange.

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  • Not for me, not with the power I have.  Besides, Death promised to return Katie to me after four days and lied.

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  • Two days ago, I had a dream where she told me you had four days to pass some sort of test.  I don't need to tell you what happens if you don't pass.

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  • He wore bathing trunks, a Phillies baseball cap and a t-shirt with the imprint "Eastern PA Century Bicycle Tour" and a date four years earlier.

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  • They were given reasonable service and whispered offers to, "Stay three nights, the next one's free, and we'll give you a receipt for four."

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  • She rarely combed her hair, owned no more than three or four shapeless dresses, which appeared in all seasons, most of which were stained and wrinkled.

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  • Detective David Dean had been seeing Attorney Ethel Rosewater three or four times a month for more than two years.

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  • There are only four possibilities—accident, suicide, murder or skip.

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  • There were four phone messages in Dean's absence.

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  • He's called three or four times.

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  • Now you blow four times that on one meal!

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  • Four years ago, she and Dean were a weekly item, as they say.

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  • Four of these customers had since canceled their subscription and four more were personally known to Monica.

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  • It was a small house, no more than four or five rooms.

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  • The only exception to the lonely customers was a young fam­ily of four, husband, wife, girl about nine and boy about six.

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  • All four perused the menu judiciously, with father and mother occasionally offering comments and explanations.

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  • Dean pushed each of the four buzzers, with zero response.

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  • The delay ended up being four hours.

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  • Randy's young girlfriend, Jenny, a bright and quiet little thing, arrived just after Dean and the four chatted easily before dinner.

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  • The four sat in the living room with everyone but Dean dis­cussing their future.

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  • No one knew of any next of kin to notify and Dean and Sackler were back at headquarters before four.

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  • Undaunted, he walked the four blocks to the bar on Diamond.

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  • There were three tables between the bar and the four booths that lined the far wall.

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  • The town of Cortez, located in the southwestern corner of Colorado, was near the only spot in the country where four states converged.

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  • I can carry four at a time.

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  • Alex had some nice ironstone dishes, but only a set of four.

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  • This part of northwest Arkansas enjoyed four full seasons.

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  • Ideally, she shouldn't be bred until she's four.

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  • Somewhere up there past the tree line were the four Elk Alex had coerced from the Game and Fish Commission.

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  • Four horses doesn't make a horse ranch.

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  • Both had been walking for a good four months, and they were already saying short sentences.

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  • Mrs. Barnett, you're four to six weeks pregnant.

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  • The lids felt like they were four inches thick and her tongue felt swollen.

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  • At least things were better than they had been for the last four months.

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  • She was four months late doing so, but it was done now, and at last the haunting feeling was laid to rest.

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  • Considering the way she had been acting for the last four months, he probably thought she'd get hysterical.

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  • With four days at most remaining in her ability to control the Black God, she suspected she'd be dead in five.

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  • Jonny turned to go and joined the four.

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  • Jonny's bathroom was four times the size of hers.

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  • It was a rough circle about four feet in diameter.

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  • Darian grabbed a few cookies, now frustrated by four women rather than one.

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  • Now, read my entry from the day I met Xander, four weeks ago today.

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  • She's not due for another four months.

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  • He launched himself at the man, only to have four guards tackle him.

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  • Sirian partnered with Rissa while the guards fanned out around them, one alert while the other four paired up to spar.

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  • She spent an eternity in her mind, watching four of the men fall dead to the wooden floor at the hands of the demon.

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  • Four steps in, the stone bottom dropped out from under him, and he all but dropped her into the depths of the Springs.

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  • You don't look old enough to have four children, let alone a teenager.

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  • Carmen had four horses saddled and ready when the men arrived in the barn.

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  • The phone rang four times before he answered.

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  • And Gerald - that would be all four of you, I guess.

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  • You left me with a sling on one arm and four children to take care of.

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  • I don't know - one with a tail and four feet - a cat, but not a tom cat or a polecat.

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  • She sounds like one of those motorcycles with four wheels.

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  • Ahead of him lay four weeks of uncharted business.

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  • She had four thousand dollars in her checking account, all of which she had saved.

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  • Four weeks should convince everyone, including herself, that she could run her own life.

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  • She's earned four weeks off.

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  • I've leased the place for four weeks and I'm leaving tomorrow - with or without your consent.

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  • Take the four weeks off, but I expect you back here - four weeks from Monday.

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  • In a few minutes she her ride would be here and she wouldn't have to smell the stuff for four weeks.

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  • If Dad had sent the man, his next four weeks weren't going to be as relaxing as hers.

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  • Singing softly, she turned out onto the three-lane highway and used the center lane to execute a left turn onto a four lane highway.

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  • Do you plan to spend four weeks there?

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  • Four weeks would be a long time.

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  • Of course, that meant almost four hours of driving back and forth.

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  • Surely he hadn't planned to spend four hours on the road.

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  • Sure. You didn't think I bought one to use for four weeks, did you?

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  • This time the ax sank about four inches into the wood - in another spot.

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  • Jessi rang the doorbell four times, nervously pacing in front of the closed door.

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  • Rule four, you are responsible for cleaning and laundry.

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  • The air around him was strangely still, the heat of a body unlike any she'd ever seen before reminding her she hadn't dated in four years.

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  • The four who looked ready for a modeling shoot.

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  • Gerry joined her, watching the four below.

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  • They looked down to find all four of those on the lower level staring up.

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  • It's been four, and now everyone knows it!

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  • It struck her that the red eyes weren't contacts and the four inch incisors weren't implants.

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  • How had he not severed an artery or killed her with those four inch incisors?

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  • Jessi hurried inside, heart pounding, not at ease until all four locks of her apartment door were securely in place.

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  • Yet you haven't gotten laid in four years.

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  • It was four thirty, and she was slated to leave at five.

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  • Day four, and he was zero for four.

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  • After four steps, she felt them and grimaced, a rough edge piercing one finger.

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  • Noteworthy among the buildings within the ancient citadel is a small tetrastyle temple, variously ascribed to Jupiter and Minerva, the portico supported by six monolithic columns of cippolino, four being in front.

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  • This conception of matter, as infinitely divisible and continuous, was taught by Anaxagoras more than four centuries before the Christian era, and in the philosophy of Aristotle the same ideas are found.

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  • At Leipzig, Göttingen and Halle he studied for four years, ultimately devoting himself to mathematics and astronomy.

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  • Louis, who was the eldest of four children, received from his mother a strict religious training.

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  • After spending a year in prison at Ofen, he was tried and condemned to four more years' imprisonment.

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  • In 1 9 05 he was Democratic candidate for mayor of New York on the Municipal Ownership ticket, and four years later on the Independence League ticket; in 1906 he was candidate for governor of New York on the Democratic and Independence League tickets, in every instance being defeated.

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  • Early in 1443 the college was opened by Chicheley with four bishops in state.

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  • For while at New College only twenty out of seventy fellows were to study law instead of arts, philosophy and theology, at All Souls College sixteen were to be " jurists " and only twenty-four " artists "; and while at New College there were ten chaplains and three clerks necessarily, at All Souls the number was not defined but left optional; so that there are now only one chaplain and four bible clerks.

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  • An attack of the ague sent him home, and on recovery, having resolved to attend a high school and fit himself to become a teacher, he passed the next four years in a hard struggle with poverty and in an earnest effort to secure an education, studying for a short time in the Geauga Seminary atChester, Ohio.

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  • In most cases four spores are formed within the cell by free formation.

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  • Astorga was the Roman Asturica Augusta, a provincial capital, and the meeting-place of four military roads.

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  • The minute insects included in it, which haunt blossoms and leaves, are fairly well known to gardeners by the name Thrips, a generic term used by Linnaeus for the four species of the group which he had examined and relegated to the order Hemiptera.

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  • From two to four moults occur, after which the " pronymph " stage is reached, which in the insect is moderately active and possesses wing-rudiments reaching to the second abdominal Segment.

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  • The maxillary palps have usually three, the labial either two or four segments.

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  • In 1251 William de Ferrers obtained from the crown a charter for a weekly market and a yearly fair, but gradually this annual fair was replaced by four others chiefly for horses and cattle.

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  • It consequently has four vertices and six edges.

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  • This system is of much service in following out mathematical, physical and chemical problems in which it is necessary to represent four variables.

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  • The third line gives the range of the regular diurnal inequality, the next four lines the amplitudes of the first four Fourier waves into which the regular diurnal inequality has been analysed.

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  • The final four are at high levels.

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  • The same observer from four weeks' observations at Hammerfest got the considerably lower mean value 58, with a maximum of 252.

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  • He left four poems.

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  • The Senate is composed (1910) of thirty members, chosen from fifteen districts for a term of four years, but one half the membership retires biennially.

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  • Other officers are the clerk of the county court, elected for six years, the sheriff, who also acts as tax-collector and treasurer, the prosecuting attorney, one or two assessors, the surveyor of lands and the superintendent of free schools, all elected for the term of four years; the sheriff may not serve two consecutive full terms. In addition there are boards appointed or elected by various authorities and charged with specific duties.

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  • For each school district there is a board of education consisting of a president and two commissioners, each elected for a term of four years, one commissioner every two years.

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  • The county supervision of public schools is vested in a county superintendent, who is elected for a term of four years.

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  • The state supervision is vested in a state superintendent, who is elected for a term of four years.

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  • When this " First Wheeling Convention" met, four hundred and twenty-five delegates from twenty-five counties were present, but soon there was a division of sentiment.

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  • The exterior of the choir, with its four radiating chapels, its jutting cornices supported by modillions and columns with carved capitals, and its mosaic decoration of black and white stones, is the most interesting part of the exterior The rest of the church comprises a narthex surmounted by a tower, three naves and a transept, over which rises another tower.

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  • The poems of Propertius, as they have come down to us, consist of four books containing 4046 lines of elegiac verse.

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  • The four-book numbering is now the current one and is adopted in this article though there is little doubt that there were originally four books besides the Cynthia.

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  • The council was reduced to four members with a governor-general, who were to exercise certain indefinite powers of control over the presidencies of Madras and Bombay.

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  • He is assisted by the conseil colonial numbering sixteen members, six of whom are French citizens elected by the French, six natives elected by the natives, the other four being members of the chamber of commerce of Saigon and the conseil prive.

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  • The mention of four burgesses at Bridlington (Brellington, Burlington) in the Domesday survey shows it to have been a borough before the Conquest.

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  • Palgrave's most important work is his History of Normandy and England, which appeared in four volumes (London 1851-1864), and deals with the history of the two countries down to 1101.

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  • On his death it was divided into four branches.

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  • Thus, there may be a platform round the nuraghe, generally with two, three or four bastions, each often containing a chamber; or the main nuraghe may have additional chambers added to it.

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  • The island had (probably since the end of the 9th century) been divided into four districts - Cagliari, Arborea, Torres (or Logudoro) and Gallura - each under a giudice or remained a prisoner at Bologna until his death.

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  • Four main processes may be distinguished.

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  • In 1891 he was appointed lecturer in physics at Stockholm and four years later became full professor.

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  • In 1765 the first four volumes of his work were published under the pseudonym "Edward Search."

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  • Four years later he captured Caryae, ravaged the territory of the Parrhasii and defeated the Arcadians, Argives and Messenians in the "tearless battle," so called because the victory did not cost the Spartans a single life.

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  • In 1500 the diet had divided Germany into six circles, for the maintenance of peace, to which the emperor at the diet of Cologne in 1512 added four others.

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  • The spores differ from those of ferns in their outer coat (exospore) being split up into four club-shaped hygroscopic threads (elaters) which are curled when moist, but become straightened when dry.

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  • The building consists of four blocks.

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  • At four or five months they are lovely, as generally they retain their baby whiteness, which contrasts well with their almost black ears, deep-brown markings, and blue eyes."

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  • The book will contain four essays, all in French, with the general title of Project of a Universal science, capable of raising our nature to its highest perfection; also Dioptrics, Meteors and Geometry, wherein the most curious matters which the author could select as a proof of the universal science which he proposes are explained in such a way that even the unlearned may understand them.'

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  • In 1669, when the chair of philosophy at the College Royal fell vacant, one of the four selected candidates had to sustain a thesis against " the pretended new philosophy of Descartes."

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  • Four years later Thebes used her new predominance in central Greece to restore the Trachinians, who retained Heraclea until 37 1, when Jason of Pherae seized and dismantled it.

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  • Every player uses four lignum vitae bowls in single-handed games and (as a rule) in friendly games, but only two in matches.

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  • On all good greens the game is played in rinks of four a side, there being, however, on the part of many English clubs still an adherence to the old-fashioned method of two and three a side rinks.

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  • Ordinarily a match team consists of four rinks of four players each, or sixteen men in all.

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  • The four players in a rink are known as the leader, second player, third player and skip (or driver, captain or director), and their positions, at least in matches, are unchangeable.

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  • The weakest player in the four is invariably played in the second place (the "soft second").

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  • There are four sections in the game, namely, drawing, guarding, trailing and driving.

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  • Helium is present in the atmosphere, of which it constitutes four parts in a million.

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  • Her father's palace was pillaged by the Turks, and as a child of four years old she was sold to the comte de Ferriol, the French ambassador at Constantinople.

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  • His determinations of pitch by a weighted wire are not trustworthy; Ellis thinks they are not safe within four or five vibrations per second, but gives a mean pitch for this organ, when altered, of a' 395.2.

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  • Its long subjection to Turkey has left little trace of antiquity, and the most striking features in the general view are the minarets of the disused mosques (only four are now in use) and the Mahommedan burying-grounds.

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  • In ten years four cotton mills were running, employing nearly 1400 hands.

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  • Within four months the population was 1200; by 1873 it was 2500; in 1880 it was 3086; and in 1890 it had reached 26,178.

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  • At least four species of fleas (including Pulex irritans) which infest the common rat are known to bite man, and are believed to be the active agents in the transmission of plague from rats to human beings.

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  • He introduced into medical theory the four causes of the Peripatetic system.

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  • In the region east of KroIa the Mat tribe, which occupies the upper valley of the Matia, presents an 'entirely different organization; their district is governed by four wealthy families, possessing hereditary rank and influence.

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  • His works were collected by Cardinal Cajetan, and were published in four volumes at Rome (1606-1615), and then at Paris in 1642, at Venice in 1743, and there are other editions.

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  • Victor Cousin has devoted four volumes to her, which, though immensely diffuse, give a vivid picture of her time.

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  • Seventy-six bishops accepted the primate's invitation to the first conference, which met at Lambeth on the 24th of September 1867, and sat for four days, the sessions being in private.

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  • The book of Haggai contains four short prophecies delivered between the first day of the sixth month and the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month - that is, between September and December - of the second year of Darius the king.

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  • In a century's experience of the Selkirk colonists there have been four " floods."

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  • It has four members in the Canadian Senate and ten in the House of Commons.

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  • Each of the four faces of each rod contains multiples of one of the nine digits, and is similar to one of the slips just described, the first rod containing the multiples of o, I, 9, 8, the second of o, 2, 9, 7, the third of o, 3, 9, 6, the fourth of 0, 4, 9, 5, the fifth of I, 2, 8, 7, the sixth of I, 3, 8, 6, the seventh of I, 4, 8, 5, the eighth of 2, 3, 7, 6, the ninth of 2, 4, 7, 5, and the tenth of 3, 4, 6, 5.

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  • Only one of the four analogies is actually given by Napier, the other three being added by Briggs in the remarks which are appended to Napier's results.

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  • They are, however, so simply deducible from the results he has.given that all the four analogies may be properly called by his name.

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  • Under the persecution, a large number were killed, and between four and five millions of Protestants left the country.

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  • Kirk-sessions were formed in four regiments, and the first regular The First presbytery was held at Carrickfergus on the Loth of Presbytery.

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  • There were five presbyteries holding monthly meetings and annual visitations of all the congregations within their bounds, and coming together in general synod four times a year.

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  • English Puritans emigrated under the auspices of the Virginia Company to the Bermudas in 1612; and in 1617 a Presbyterian Church, governed by ministers and four elders, was established there by Lewis Hughes, who used the liturgy of the isles of Guernsey and Jersey.

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  • In 1716 this presbytery became a synod by dividing itself into four "subordinate meetings or presbyteries," after the Irish model.

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  • The United Presbyterian Church has a board of foreign missions (reorganized in 1859) with missions in Egypt (1853), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1909, 71 congregations, 70 ministers and 10,341 members), in the Punjab (1854), now a synod with four presbyteries (in 1 909, 35 congregations, 51 ministers and 17,321 members), and in the Sudan (1901); and boards of home missions (reorganized, 1859), church extension (1859), publication (1859), education (1859), ministerial relief (1862), and missions to the freedmen (1863).

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  • Four years later East Orange was chartered as a city.

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  • In the Andean provinces of Mendoza, San Juan, Catamarca and Rioja viticulture attracts much attention, and the area in vineyards in 1901 was 109,546 acres, only 18% of which was outside the four provinces named.

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  • The legislative power is vested in a congress of two chambers - the senate, composed of 30 members (two from each province and two from the capital), elected by the provincial legislatures and by a special body of electors in the capital for a term of nine years; and the chamber of deputies, of 120 members (1906), elected for four years by direct vote of the people, one deputy for every 33,000 inhabitants.

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  • Of these colleges four are in Buenos Aires, one in each province, and one in Concepcion del Uruguay.

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  • Four years later (1520) the Portuguese seaman, Ferdinand Magellan, entered the estuary in his celebrated voyage round the world, undertaken in the service of the king of Spain (Charles I., better known as the emperor Charles V.).

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  • On the whole, however, France is inadequately provided with natural harbours; her long tract of coast washed by the Atlantic and the Bay of Biscay has sqarcely three or four good seaports, and those on the southern shore of the Channel form a striking contrast to the spacious maritime inlets on theEnglish side.

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  • Rivers.The greater part of the surface of France is divided between four principal and several secondary basins.

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  • Forage Crops.The mangold-wurzel, occupying four times the acreage of swedes and turnips, is by far the chief root-crop in France.

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  • Metallurgy.The average production and value of iron and steel manufactured in France in the last four decades of the I 9th century is shown below Cast Iron.

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  • Both mayors and deputy mayors are elected by and from among members of the municipal council for four years.

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  • This body consists, according to the population of the commune, of from 10 to 36 members, elected for four years on the principle of the scrutin de liste by Frenchmen who have reached the age of twenty-one years and have a six months residence qualification.

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  • Each section (chambre) consists of a prsident de chambre and four judges (conseillers).

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  • Of the revenue in 1905 (1503/4 million pounds) the four direct taxes produced approximately 20 millions.

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  • In time of peace an officer is attached to the staff for not more than four years.

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  • The first lasts four years, and at the end of this the pupil may obtain (after examination) the certificate of secondary studies.

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  • The hospices and hpitaux and Guadeloupe the bureaux de bienfaisance, the founda- Martinique tion of which is optional for the commune, St Pierre and Miquel are managed by committees consisting of the mayor of the municipality and six Total in Am members, two elected by the municipal council and four nominated by the prefect.

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  • In 1772 he was called to the bar; four years afterwards he was nominated to the chair of poetry at the imperial college.

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  • The four Gothic churches of St Nicholas,' St Mary, with a lofty steeple, St James and The Holy Ghost, and the fine medieval town hall, dating in its oldest part from 1306 and restored in 1882, are among the more striking buildings.

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  • He directed the preparation of the star-maps of the Berlin academy 1830-1859, edited from 1830 and greatly improved the Astronomisches Jahrbuch, and issued four volumes of the Astronomische Beobachtungen of the Berlin observatory (1840-1857).

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  • Two intersecting central streets also divide the city into four sections, in each of which the streets are methodically named and numbered, as North 3rd, 5th, 7th, &c., or West 2nd, 4th, 6th, &c., according to direction and location.

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  • The first family is that of the true or American opossums- Didelphyidae, in which there are five pairs of upper incisors, while the feet are of the presumed primitive arboreal type, the hind foot having the four outer toes subequal and separate, with the first opposable to them all.

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  • As a sub-order, the Paucituberculata are characterized by the presence of four pairs of upper and three of lower incisor teeth; the enlargement and forward inclination of the first pair of lower incisors, and the presence of four or five sharp cusps on the cheek-teeth, coupled with the absence of "syndactylism" in the hind limbs.

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  • The first of the series (which appears to have no predecessor) single-lobed; the other four composed of two lobes, each subtriangular in section.

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  • Hind-feet with a very short nailless first toe, the second, third and fourth toes partially united by integument, of nearly equal length, the fifth distinct and rather shorter; all four with long and curved nails.

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  • The molar-like teeth slightly diminishing in size from the first to the fourth, with square crowns, each bearing four pyramidal cusps.

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  • The tail is long and in some cases prehensile; the first hind-toe may be either large, small or absent; the dentition usually includes three pairs of upper and one of lower incisors, and six or seven pairs of cheekteeth in each jaw; the stomach is either simple or sadculated, without a cardiac gland; and there are four teats.

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  • At this period the religion of Mahomet was spreading over the east, and in 637 the caliph Omar marched on Jerusalem, which capitulated after a siege of four months.

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  • N.N.E., on the opposite side of the Pulwar, rises a perpendicular wall of rock, in which four similar tombs are cut, at a considerable height from the bottom of the valley.

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  • The Romans knew as little about Istakhr as the Greeks had done about Persepolis - and this in spite of the fact that for four hundred years the Sassanians maintained relations, friendly or hostile, with the empire.

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  • The numerous scientific memoirs in which his original work is set forth were collected under his own editorship in four large volumes, the last of which was published in 1903.

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  • They did, indeed, represent the aristocracy of wealth, for they had to pay a subscription of four louis, a large sum at that time, besides six livres for attendance.

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  • Thus the Harranians had four sacrificial days in every month, and of these two at least were determined by the conjunction and opposition of the moon. ?

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  • It forms, with the islands of Syme, Casos, Carpathos, Castelorizo, Telos and Charki, one of the four sanjaks into which the Archipelago vilayet of Turkey is divided.

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  • Four years later the inhabitants for the most part abandoned their former residences and concentrated in the newly founded city of Rhodes.

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  • There are four species of large fruit-eating bats, called flying foxes, twenty of insect-eating bats, above twenty of land-rats, and five of water-rats.

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  • Australia contains four cities whose population exceeds ioo,000, and fifteen with over 10,000.

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  • In some tribes there were only three in use, in most four.

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  • There are words for the elementary numbers, one, two, three; but " four " is usually expressed by " two-two."

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  • The water was rising so rapidly in the hold that with four pumps constantly going the crew could hardly keep it in check.

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  • Four other parties, besides Howitt's, were sent out that year from different Australian provinces.

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  • The consuming power of the population was greatly diminished, and in the year following the crisis the imports into Australia from abroad diminished by four and three-quarter millions.

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  • The convex side rests upon the duchy of Coburg and is in part bounded by Bavaria, while the concave side, turned towards the north, contains portions of four other Thuringian states and Prussia between its horns, which are 46 m.

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  • The name was borne also by four Parthian kings.

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  • The castle of the Camminghas in the village of Ballum remained standing till 1810, and finally disappeared in 1829 after four centuries.

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  • Sculptured slabs form balustrades to the steps leading up to the temple, and its exterior is ornamented with figures in stucco, the outer faces of the four pillars in front having life-size figures of women with children in their arms. The small Temple of Beau Relief stands on a narrow ledge of rock against the steep slope of the mountain.

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  • In 1661 Plymouth sold its interests, and soon afterward the four purchasers abandoned the post.

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  • Lowe was a rather cut-anddry economist, who prided himself that during his four years of office he took twelve millions off taxation; but later opinion has hardly accepted his removal of the shilling registration duty on corn (1869) as good statesmanship, and his failures are remembered rather than his successes.

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  • To the public Boole was known only as the author of numerous abstruse papers on mathematical topics, and of three or four distinct publications which have become standard works.

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  • Saxon was at this period the common title of all the north German tribes; there was but little difference between Frisians and Saxons either in race or language, and they were closely united for some four centuries in common resistance to the encroachments of the Frankish power.

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  • Her marriage four months later to Maximilian of Austria was the beginning of the long domination -of the house of Habsburg.

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  • War followed, in which Turkey was easily successful and gained a small rectification of frontier; then a few months later Crete was taken over "en depot" by the Four Powers - Germany and Austria not participating, - and Prince George of Greece was appointed their mandatory.

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  • A change of climate, however, is imperatively necessary every five or six years, and the children of European parents should not be kept in the peninsula after they have attained the age of four or five years.

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  • A few cases have been recorded, however, of tribes who can count in their own tongue up to four and five.

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  • These four alkaloids exist in combination in tobacco chiefly as malates and citrates.

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  • The New Mosque (Jamaa-el-Jedid), dating from the 17th century, is in the form of a Greek cross, surmounted by a large white cupola, with four small cupolas at the corners.

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  • The principal entrance, reached by a flight of 23 steps, is ornamented with a portico supported by four black-veined marble columns.

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  • Tompkins in state, and a National Republican in national politics, after 1828 became allied with the Anti-Masonic party, attending the national conventions of 1830 and 1831, and as a member of the organization he served four years (1830-1834) in the state Senate.

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  • Four years later he was renominated, was elected, was re-elected in 1840, and served from January 1839 until January 1843.

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  • Although this idea had often been expressed by others, and by Seward himself in his speech of 1848, yet he was severely criticized, and four days later he sought to render this statement innocuous also.

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  • Cromwell was present at the sieges of Bridgwater, Bath, Sherborne and Bristol; and later, in command of four regiments of foot and three of horse, he was employed in clearing Wiltshire and Hampshire of the royalist garrisons.

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  • By his wife Elizabeth Bourchier, Cromwell had four sons, Robert (who died in 1639), Oliver (who died in 1644 while serving in his father's regiment), Richard, who succeeded him as Protector, and Henry.

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  • He also had four daughters.

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  • When Commodore Perry arrived in 1853, there were on Peel Island thirty-one inhabitants, four being English, four American, one Portuguese and the rest natives of the Sandwich Islands, the Ladrones, &c.; and when Mr Russell Robertson visited the place in 1875, the colony had grown to sixty-nine, of whom only five were pure whites.

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  • In 1266 he was attached to the Faculty of Arts in the University of Paris at the time when there was a great conflict between the four "nations."

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  • Thus perished at the age of thirty-six one of the most chivalrous and gifted of a gallant band of brothers, four of whom laid down their lives in their country's cause.

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  • It consists of four hemispherical cups, mounted one on each end of a pair of horizontal arms, which lie at right angles to each other and form a cross.

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  • The best-known of Joule's experiments was that in which a brass paddle consisting of eight arms rotated in a cylindrical vessel of water containing four fixed vanes, which allowed the passage of the arms of the paddle but prevented the water from rotating as a whole.

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  • Heinrich Schiitz's Lamentatio Davidi is written for a bass voice accompanied by four trombones and organ.

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  • Haydn finds the pianoforte so completely capable of expressing his meaning that he is at a loss to find independent material for any accompanying instruments; and the violoncello in his trios has, except perhaps in four passages in the whole collection of thirty-three works, not a note to play that is not already in the bass of the pianoforte; while the melodies of the violin are, more often than not, doubled in the treble.

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  • Beneath the epidermis is a longitudinal layer of muscle-fibres which are separated into four distinct groups by the dorsal, ventral and lateral areas; these are occupied by a continuation of the epidermic layer; in the lateral areas run two thin-walled tubes with clear contents, which unite in the anterior part of the body and open by a pore situated on the ventral surface usually about a quarter or a third of the body length from the anterior end.

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  • Four graving docks were also formed, opening out of the first (Upnor) basin.

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  • After his death, his son, Valentinian Ii., an infant of four years of age, with his half-brother Gratian a lad of about seventeen, became the emperors of the West.

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  • Four years later he was murdered at Vienne in Gaul, probably at the instigation of his Frankish general Arbogast, with whom he had quarrelled.

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  • Gardens or plantations were let in the same ways and under the same conditions; but for dategroves four years' free tenure was allowed.

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  • The subjection of the core to a hydraulic pressure of four tons to the square inch and an electric pressure of 5000 volts from an alternating-current transformer has been adopted, by one manufacturer at least, to secure the detection of masked faults which might develop themselves after submergence.

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  • Thus the speed on a line at which the repeater is situated exactly midway will be four times that of the line worked direct.

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  • Four years later Varley patented his artificial cable, which was the first near approach to a successful solution of the duplex problem on the principle now adopted.

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  • To each group is connected a set of apparatus; hence during a complete revolution of the arms a pair of instruments (at station A and station B) will be in communication four times, and the intervals during which any particular set of instruments at the two stations are not in connexion with each other become much smaller than in the case of fig.

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  • Thus between London and Manchester only four sets of apparatus could be worked, but between London and Birmingham, a shorter distance, six sets (the maximum for which the system is adapted) were used.

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  • An axle carrying four cams is normally at rest, but it is thrown into gear with the mechanism when the armature rises, makes one complete revolution, and comes to rest ready for the next signal.

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  • At the receiving end of the circuit a shaft is coupled to the motor; this is provided with gearing which rotates four combining commutators and four type-wheels, which print the letters on the band of paper.

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  • A, slip as received on recorder, using ordinary relays for translating on to second cable; B, slip as received on recorder, when interpolator is used at intermediate station, for sending on to second cable; C (four cells through a line, KR=3.6), signals with recorder under ordinary conditions; D, all conditions the same as in C, but magnifying relay inserted between the end of the line and the recorder.

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  • These two cables did not have a very long life, that of 1865 breaking down in 1877 and that of 1866 in 1872, but by the later of these dates four other cables had been laid across the Atlantic, including one from Brest to Duxbury, Mass.

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  • Morse and Gale, who assisted him, found, however, that the distance of the plates up and down the canal must be at least three or four times the width of the canal to obtain successful results.

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  • Up to 1895 or 1896 the suggestions for wireless telegraphy which had been publicly announced or tried can thus be classified under three or four divisions, based respectively upon electrical conduction through the soil or sea, magnetic induction through space, combinations of the two foregoing, and lastly, electrostatic induction.

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  • Down the inner test tube pass four copper strips having platinum wires at their ends sealed through the glass.

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  • Subsequently this antenna was enlarged, and four wooden lattice towers were built, 215 ft.

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  • It is dominated, on the seaward side, by four hills, and approached by a narrow entrance, with forts on either hand; a breakwater affords shelter on the east, and on the west is the Arsenal Basin, often regarded as the original harbour of the Carthaginians and Romans.

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  • The metal is usually obtained from the flue-dust (produced during the first three or four hours working of a zinc distillation) which is collected in the sheet iron cones or adapters of the zinc retorts.

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  • Thus, in the Crossley transmitter four hard carbon pencils were arranged in a lozenge-shaped figure, the ends of each pencil resting loosely in a small carbon block.

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  • All the subscribers' lines are connected in order to jacks on the first two or three or four operators' positions, and these connexions are repeated or " multipled " upon each succeeding similar group of positions.

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  • In city districts the modern practice is to restrict the number to four stations per line, and to equip the exchanges and stations for selective ringing.

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  • The four telephones on a circuit are so wired that the relays 9-- P ..,, connect two of the bells between each wire and fl-- 0 7-..9 *"y earth, and further that one of each pair of bells responds to positive and the other to negative o-- pulsations.

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  • Of the four bells connected to a circuit each responds to a different frequency.

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  • Many circuits have been " loaded " in the manner proposed by Pupin during recent years, especially in underground cables, and it has been found in practice that the transmission value of these when loaded is approximately from three to four times their value unloaded.

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  • There are now four circuits between London and Paris, one between London and Lille, and two between Londofi and Brussels, the last carrying an increasing amount of traffic. Experiments have been made in telephonic communication between London and Rome by way of Paris.

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  • Besides these, and leaving out of account the islands, the Italian peninsula presents four distinct volcanic districts.

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  • The Roman district, the largest of the four, extends from the hills of Albano to the frontier of Tuscany, and from the lower slopes of the Apennines to the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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  • For the four years 1899-1902 2466% died under the age of one year, 9.41 between one and two years.

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  • In 1898f 899 there were only four sugar factories, with an output of 5972 tons; In 1905 there were thirty-three, with an output of 93,916 tons.

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  • In the rotation of crops there is an amazing diversityshifts of two years, three years, four years, six years, and in many cases whatever order strikes the fancy of the farmer.

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  • Leasehold, varying from four to six years for arable land and from six to eighteen years for forest-land, prevails also in Campania, Basilicata and Calabria.

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  • Parliaments are quinquennial, but the king may dissolve the Chamber of Deputies at any time, being bound, however, to convoke a new chamber within four months.

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  • By this law, every man liable and accepted for service served for eight or nine years on the Active Army and its Reserve (of which three to five were spent with the colors), four or, five in the Mobile Militia, and the rest of the service period of nineteen years in the Territorial Militia.

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  • Under present regulations the term of liability is divided into nine years in the Active Army and Reserve (three or two years with the colors) four in the Mobile MilitIa and six in the Territorial Militia.

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  • The four modern shipsthe Vittorio Emanuele class, laid down in 1897have a tonnage of 12,625, two 12-in, and twelve 8-in.

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  • I For example, wheat, the price of which was in 1902 26 lire pe cwt., pays a tax of 74 lire; sugar pays four times its wholesale val,ii in tax; coffee twice its wholesale value.

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  • For the next four years they continuec low, but rose again in 1898 and 1899.

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  • Each provincial administrative junta is composed, in part, of government nominees, and in larger part of elective elements, elected by the provincial council for four years, half of whom require to be elected every two years.

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  • The thirteen districts in their council nominated four caporioni, who acted in concert with a senator, appointed, like the podest of other cities, for supreme judicial functions.

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  • During the next four years the Franco-Spanish war dragged on in Lombardy until the decisive battle of Pavia in 1525, when Francis was taken prisoner, and Italy lay open to the Spanish armies.

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  • The measure was an amalgam of Cavours scheme for a free church in a free state, of Ricasolis Free Church Bill, rejected by parliament four years previously, and of the proposals presented to Pius IX.

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  • Sella, the real head of the Lanza cabinet, was worn out by four years continuous work and disheartened by the perfidious misrepresentation in which Italian politicians, particularly those of the Left, have ever excelled.

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  • The Chamber, though convinced of the danger of this reform, the perils of which were incisively demonstrated by Sella, voted by an overwhelming majority for an immediate reduction of the impost by onefourth, and its complete abolition within four years.

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  • Four hundred and seven men and twenty-three officers were killed outright, and one officer and eighty-one men wounded.

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  • Within four months the death of Depretis (29th July 1887) opened for Crispi the way to the premiership. Besides assuming the presidency of the council of ministers and retaining the ministry of the interior, Crispi took over the portfolio of foreign affairs which Depretis had held since the resignation of Count di Robilant.

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  • Mangashh made no reply, and Baratieri crossing the Mareb advanced to Adowa, but four days later was obliged to return northwards.

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  • Colonel Stevani with four native battalions to relieve, cnt, C Kassala, then hard pressed by the Mahdists.

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  • Four of them are attributed to the archbishop himself - those on Salvation, Faith, Good Works and the Reading of Scripture.

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  • Tried for high treason, Thistlewood and four others were sentenced to death, and were hanged on the 1st of May 1820.

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  • In artistic representations, Brahma usually appears as a bearded man of red colour with four heads crowned with a pointed, tiara-like head-dress, and four hands holding his sceptre, or a sacrificial spoon, a bundle of leaves representing the Veda, a bottle of water of the Ganges, and a string of beads or his bow Parivita.

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  • But is it really a matter of faith that two and two make four?

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  • In this way, the attributes are suggestively allotted among the four traditional proofs; 7 but we miss an explicit rebutting of Kant's hostile assumption, that it is incompetent for us to take the thought of God piecemeal.

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  • It should be mentioned that, although the charter was evidently not sealed until the 19th, the four existing copies of it are dated the 15th, the day on which John accepted the articles.

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  • These must be heard in the county courts before two visiting justices and four knights of the shire.

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  • Then if the king or any of his servants do wrong and complaint is made to four of the twenty-five, they are to ask for redress.

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  • There are at present in existence four copies of Magna Carta, sealed with the great seal of King John, and several unsealed copies.

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  • Of the four two are in the British Museum.

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  • He obtained his release after four months, and again devoted himself to pamphleteering, but had speedily to retire for a time to London.

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  • The labouring convicts are distributed among four jails and nineteen stations; the self-supporters in thirtyeight villages.

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  • There are four hospitals, each under a resident medical officer, under the general supervision of a senior officer of the Indian medical service, and medical aid is given free to the whole population.

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  • The morphology of the group thus falls naturally into four sections - (I) the hydropolyp, (2) the polyp-colony, (3) the hydromedusa, (4) the medusa-colonies.

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  • In its fullest development, therefore, the sub-epithelial layer consists of four classes of cellelements.

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  • The marginal tentacles are rarely absent in non-parasitic forms, and are typically four in number, corresponding to the four perradii marked by the radial canals.

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  • The mouth may be a simple, circular pore at the extremity of the manubrium, or by folding of the edges it may become square or shaped like a Maltese cross, with four corners and four lips.

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  • The radial canals may be simple or branched, primarily four, rarely six in number.

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  • Thus the gonads are covered over by at least four layers of epithelium, and since these are unnecessary, presenting merely obstacles to the dehiscence of the gonads, they gradually undergo reduction.

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  • The buds of Margellium are produced on the manubrium in each of the four interradii, and they arise from the ectoderm, that is to say, the germinal epithelium, which later gives rise to the gonads.

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  • A " stolon " of unknown origin produces thirty-two buds, which become as many Polypodia; each has twenty-four tentacles and divides by fission repeated twice into four individuals, each with six tentacles.

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  • The gonads are borne on the manubrium, either forming a continuous ring (Codonid type), or four masses or pairs of masses (Oceanid type).

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  • Trophosome (only known in one genus), polyps with two tentacles forming a creeping colony; gonosome, free medusae with four, six or more radial canals, giving off one or more lateral branches which run to the margin of the umbrella, with the stomach produced into four, six or more lobes, upon which the gonads are developed; the mouth with four lips or with a folded margin; the tentacles simple, arranged evenly round the margin of the umbrella.

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  • The medusae, on the other hand, have the tentacles in four tufts of (in the buds) five each, and thus resemble the medusae of the family Margelidae.

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  • In number they are rarely less than four, but in Dissonema there are only two.

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  • Primitively there are four perradial tentacles, to which may be added four interradial, or they may become very numerous and are then scattered evenly round the margin, never arranged in tufts or clusters.

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  • Olindiadae, with four radial canals and four gonads; manubrium short; ring-canals giving off blind centripetal canals; tentaculocysts enclosed.

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  • Eight radial canals, two, four or eight gonads; tentacles numerous; tentaculocysts free; stomach prolonged into manubrium.

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  • Four or six radial canals; gonads band-like; stomach prolonged into a manubrium of great length; tentaculocysts enclosed.

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  • According to Flint, 4 there were four men who in this and the preceding century seized and made prominent this idea, namely, Bodin, Bacon, Descartes and Pascal.

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  • The court consists of ministers and elders, elected from the presbyteries in specified proportions, and of commissioners from the four universities, the city of Edinburgh and the royal burghs.

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  • In 1831 the pope enacted that in all the dioceses of the then Pontifical States, the court of first instance for the criminal causes of ecclesiastics should consist of the ordinary and four other judges.

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  • Over the rest of western continental Europe and in the colonies of Spain, Portugal and France, ecclesiastical jurisdiction remained generally in the state which we have already described the court of the cardinal vicar-general consists of such vicargeneral and four other prelates (Smith, ubi supra).

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  • The metropolitan of Athens is president, and there are four other members appointed by the government in annual rotation from the senior bishops.

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  • The bishop's consistorial court, consisting of himself and four priests, has a limited jurisdiction in first instance.

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  • The final court is the island synod, which consists of the archbishop, his suffragans and four dignified priests.

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  • The Sutta Pitaka consists of five Nikayas, four principal and one supplementary.

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  • The four principal ones have been published for the Pali Text Society, and some volumes have been translated into English or German.

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  • These four Nikayas, sixteen volumes in all, are the main authorities for the doctrines of early Buddhism.

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  • It seems probable that the Vinaya and the four Nikayas were put substantially into the shape in which we now have them before the council at Vesali, a hundred years after the Buddha's death; that slight alterations and additions were made in them, and the miscellaneous Nikaya and the Abhidhamma books completed, at various times down to the third council under Asoka; and that the canon was then considered closed.

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  • This condition of mind can be obtained only by "living conformably to nature," that is to say, one's whole nature, and as a means to that man must cultivate the four chief virtues, each of which has its distinct sphere - wisdom, or the knowledge of good and evil; justice, or the giving to every man his due; fortitude, or the enduring of labour and pain; and temperance, or moderation in all things.

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  • As in all poplars, the catkins expand in early spring, long before the leaves unfold; the ovaries bear four linear stigma lobes; the capsules ripen in May.

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  • Galen believed in the doctrine of humours originated by Hippocrates, which supposes the condition of the body to depend upon the proper mixture of the four elements, hot, cold, moist and dry, and that drugs possess the same elementary qualities, and that on the principle of contraries one or other was indicated, e.g.

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  • The period of study is eighteen months in Denmark or Norway, and two in Austria, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland, three in Belgium, France, Greece and Italy, four to six in Holland, and five in Spain.

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  • On Sabbath he dressed in white, wearing a four-fold garment to typify the four letters of the Divine Name.

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  • Now it is chiefly known as the junction of four railways, the East Indian, Oudh & Rohilkand, Rajputana and Indian Midland, and as a great emporium for harness, shoes and other leather-work.

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  • The district is watered by four branches of the Ganges canal, and traversed by two lines of railway.

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  • The gills, borne on four arches, are internal and enclosed in the branchial chambers.

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  • A four act play in verse, Un Hombre de Estado, was accepted by the managers of the Teatro Espanol, was given on the 25th of January 1851, and proved a remarkable success.

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  • In other cases, again, a group of two or four prismatIl cells takes the place of the apical cell.

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  • Four stages can be recognized.

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  • Treub found on Krakatoa four species of composites and two grasses.

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  • Of four genera which Hooker singles out as the largest in Sikkim, in China Corydalis has 76 species, Saxifraga 58, Pedicularis 129, and Primula 77.

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  • There are two species of Pistacia and four of Liquidambar.

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  • At the least there should be some consideration of four separate systems of discovery - the Eastern, in which Chinese and Japanese explorers acquired knowledge of the geography of Asia, and felt their way towards Europe and America; the Western, in which the dominant races of the Mexican and South American plateaus extended their knowledge of the American continent before Columbus; the Polynesian, in which the conquering races of the Pacific Islands found their way from group to group; and the Mediterranean.

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  • It does not seem that any maritime trade followed these discoveries, and indeed it is doubtful whether his contemporaries accepted the truth of Pytheas's narrative; Strabo four hundred years later certainly did not, but the critical studies of modern scholars have rehabilitated the Massilian explorer.

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  • Vespucci afterwards made three voyages to the Brazilian coast; and in 1504 he wrote an account of his four voyages, which was widely circulated, and became the means of procuring for its author at the hands of the cartographer Waldseemi ller in 1507 the disproportionate distinction of giving his name to the whole continent.

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  • He was furnished with four ships of Amsterdam, two of Rotterdam and one from Zeeland.

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  • Passing through the New Hebrides group he touched at Batavia, and arrived at St Malo after an absence of two years and four months.

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  • Professor Keane groups man round four leading types, which may be named the black, yellow, red and white, or the Ethiopic, Mongolic, American and Caucasic. Each may be subdivided, though not with great exactness, into smaller groups, either according to physical_; characteristics, of which the form of the head is most important, or according to language.

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  • Sulla, leaving things quiet at Rome, quitted Italy in 87, and for the next four years he was winning victory after victory against the armies of Mithradates and accumulating boundless plunder.

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  • Unable to bear up against the Dominican's fiery denunciations, the sovereigns, three months after the fall of Granada, issued a decree ordering every Jew either to embrace Christianity or to leave the country, four months being given to make up their minds; and those who refused to become Christians to order had leave to sell their property and carry off their effects.

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  • In 1810 four citizens of Franklinton formed an association to secure the location of the capital on the higher ground of the east bank; in 1812 they were successful and the place was laid out while still a forest.

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  • Four years later, when the legislature held its first session here, the settlement was incorporated as the Borough of Columbus.

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