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Likewise the life of any one of the Ten was the life of all, and might be truthfully represented by a single year, since each year was exactly like the preceding. [9]
This last incursion has been more destructive to the noble serenity of the forest than all the preceding. [4]
On his wedding-day, February 2, 1870, Clemens received a check from his publishers for more than four thousand dollars, royalty accumulated during the three months preceding. [5]
There is an endless variety in these old costumes; and one sees, every moment, one more preposterous than the preceding. [4]

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For the last year the amount has been reduced to $11,125,364.13, showing a decrease of about $2,481,000 in the expenditures as compared with the preceding year, and about $3,750,000 as compared with the fiscal year 1860. [7]
In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less that those of 1863. [7]
These gallant gentlemen, with one hundred and fifty souls, had been wrecked on the Bermudas in the Sea Venture in the preceding July. [4]
Not less peculiar were Mrs. Falchion's words to Hungerford the evening before, recorded in the last sentence of the preceding chapter. [11]
The summer--or what we call summer in the North, which is usually a preparation for warm weather, ending in a preparation for cold weather --seemed to me very short--but I have noticed that each summer is a little shorter than the preceding one. [4]
Memory of her was only poignant, in so far as it was associated with the days preceding the wreck of the Antoine. [11]
Smith wrote his travels in London nearly thirty years after, and it is difficult to say how much is the result of his own observation and how much he appropriated from preceding romances. [4]
Comyn was taken to his house in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in Sir Charles's coach, whither I insisted upon preceding him. [9]
Then she went to her room, but in old Ursel's chamber, at the same hour as on the preceding night, a similar conversation took place. [10]
I merely meant to get up and give my thanks for the pleasant things that preceding speakers have said of me. [5]
A countermovement is then accomplished from east to west with a remarkable resemblance to the preceding movement from west to east. [2]
They formally adopted the revised constitution, which had been agreed upon at the first meeting, in New York in the preceding January, and elected officers as prescribed by the constitution. [4]
Some days following the preceding letter an invitation came for him to be present at the Chicago reunion; but by this time he had decided not to go. [5]
It is in the political writings immediately preceding and following the Revolution --such as those of Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Franklin, Jefferson that the new birth of a nation of original force and ideas is declared. [4]
I, too, scanned the period immediately preceding my illness, but reached the conclusion that it was due to acute colds, the first of which ran into a very violent fever. [10]
When one of the opinions expressed is fulfilled, that opinion gets connected with the event as a command preceding it. [2]
The mention of the name of Gerhardt in the preceding letter introduces the most important, or at least the most extensive, of these benefactions. [5]
He harshly rebuffed the landlord and the waiter who tried to accost him, but when the peasant's prediction was fulfilled and the thunderstorm of the preceding night was followed at midnight by one equally severe, he arose and left the hostelry. [10]
At one of the hot discussions in 1623 preceding the dissolution of the Virginia Company by the revocation of their charter, Smith was present, and said that he hoped for his time spent in Virginia he should receive that year a good quantity of tobacco. [4]
And still in the dark hours a stirring, a delicious sensation preceding reason, and the consciousness of a figure stealing about the room. [9]
Dr. Hooker believes that the typhus syncopatia of a preceding generation in New England "was often in fact a brandy and opium disease. [3]
The day preceding that fixed for my execution came, yet there was no sign from friend or enemy without. [11]
Everyone rose, feeling that dinner was more important than verses, and Bagration, again preceding all the rest, went in to dinner. [2]
Naturally the question suggests itself, Why did these people want the river now when nobody had wanted it in the five preceding generations? [5]
Sonya had already struck him by her beauty on the preceding day. [2]
But the preceding statements shew how difficult it is to arrive at any precise result. [1]
Jean did the same yesterday and the preceding days, and the fatigue has cost her her life. [5]
The income from sales during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1864, was $678,007.21, against $136,077.95 received during the preceding year. [7]
It must be remembered that the events of the preceding chapter were only known to me afterwards. [11]
He did not remain in New York, but went down to Washington, where he had arranged for a private secretaryship with Senator William M. Stewart,--[The "Bill" Stewart mentioned in the preceding chapter. [5]
The praetor had recollected the near approach of his birthday, and also that the position of stars in the night preceding it, would certainly be observed by Hadrian. [10]
On the other question, how the battle of Borodino and the preceding battle of Shevardino were fought, there also exists a definite and well-known, but quite false, conception. [2]
During the night preceding thy birth I fell asleep at the bedside of my wife. [10]
In the year preceding the revolution there had been a bad harvest, and frightful stories were told of famine in the weaving districts of Silesia. [10]
After all the preceding noise the sound of their old voices saying one after another, "I agree," or for variety, "I too am of that opinion," and so on had even a mournful effect. [2]
In the week preceding Easter, when all the parish was busy at Four Mountains, making costumes, rehearsing, building, putting up seats, cutting down trees, and erecting crosses and calvaries, Charley disclosed to Jo a new intention. [11]
As on the preceding day, he was magnificently dressed, and wore a laurel wreath on his head. [10]
It borrowed from preceding ages; it lent to the ages that came after. [5]
It gives me pleasure to report a decided improvement in the financial condition of the Post-Office Department as compared with several preceding years. [7]
The Head of our ancient University honored us in the same way in the preceding season. [3]
I like this one, I liked the preceding one (already mailed to you some time ago) but I had my doubts about 1 and 2. [5]
He went at once to the king and informed him without reserve of the events of the preceding evening. [10]
Now if you offset these discreditable features by the creditable ones summarised in a preceding paragraph beginning with the words, 'These facts are all on the credit side,' and strike a balance, what must the verdict be? [5]
The terrific storm of the preceding night had thrown the whole city into dismay. [10]
At a meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held on Thursday, the 14th of June, 1877, after the reading of the records of the preceding meeting, the president, the Hon. [6]
If the aim of the European wars at the beginning of the nineteenth century had been the aggrandizement of Russia, that aim might have been accomplished without all the preceding wars and without the invasion. [2]
What a mystery of preparation there is in the preceding days, what planning and plottings of surprises! [4]
He produced examinations of preceding years from a pigeonhole in his desk, and inside of half an hour the arrangement was made, the price of the lessons settled. [9]
I have nothing of importance to add to the two preceding Prefaces. [6]
A momentary posture of circumstances is so far like some preceding one that we accept it as exactly the same, just as we accost a stranger occasionally, mistaking him for a friend. [6]
Its date was not very long after the preceding one, at a period when, as was well known, he had almost given up the hope of gaining his case, and when the property was of little value compared to that which it had at present. [6]
As she had not shut her eyes the night before and, from dread of the ball, had slept very little during the preceding one, she soon, though the moon was shining in through the parted curtains, lapsed into a condition midway between sleep and waking. [10]
Mr. Clay, though not its projector, was one of its earliest members; and he died, as for many preceding years he had been, its president. [7]
He took a night train, and as he was whirled away in the darkness the events of the preceding forty-eight hours seemed like a dream. [4]
The machinery is much like that of the two preceding series. [6]
The "Encyclopedical Scotchman" mentioned in the preceding letter was the publisher Gebbie, who had a plan to engage Howells and Clemens to prepare some sort of anthology of the world's literature. [5]
In order to maintain the notion of a general and intended progress, it is not necessary to show that no preceding age has excelled ours in some special, development. [4]
Appended to a letter of September 9, 1814, is a list of twenty well-known mercantile houses that had failed within the preceding three weeks. [4]
At Salt Lake later telegrams told him of the acquittal, and his gratitude was boundless--so boundless, indeed, that sleep was driven from his eyes by the pleasurable excitement almost as effectually as preceding weeks of anxiety had done it. [5]
I have scarcely known a party preceding an election to call in help from the neighboring States but they lost the State. [7]
She did not know how to interpret it; nay, she anticipated nothing good when, with urgent cordiality, he entreated her to forget the unpleasant events of the preceding night, which she must attribute to a sudden fit of anger on Herr Casper's part. [10]
We have seen in the preceding chapter how unknown aspirants in one field or another were always seeking to benefit by Mark Twain's reputation. [5]
One could detect in the lapse of the waves along the shore the note of weariness preceding the change into the fretfulness and the tumult of tempests. [4]
It was eight in the evening when she and the troops rode in at the Burgundy gate, with the Paladin preceding her with her standard. [5]
Far beyond what I had regarded as the bounds of civilization, it is held as one of the mysteries of a fallen world; accompanying the home missionary on his wanderings, and preceding the footsteps of the Tract Society. [4]
Amid such reflections he remained awake until early morning; when the stars set, he started up, ordered the trumpets to be sounded, and as on the preceding days, the new-made troops assembled without opposition and in full force. [10]
The reader shall have the preceding sentence to prepare him for the one referred to. [6]
Now we here have a despatch from there Sunday and others of almost every day preceding since the investment, and while they show the siege progressing they do not show any general fighting since the 21st and 22d. [7]
A chicken that had lost his legs in the service of the preceding campaign was once more put on duty. [6]
Mysterious things were going on in the weeks immediately preceding the wedding. [4]
For three or four nights Mrs. Hawkins and Laura had been watching by the bedside; Clay had arrived, preceding Washington by one day, and he was now added to the corps of watchers. [5]
It could call for the reading and verification of the minutes of the preceding meeting, and use up half a day in that way. [5]
Tears of pity fell like the refreshing drops of a shower upon the still unwithered blossoms of their love, and brought those which, during the preceding night, had revived anew, to their last magnificent unfolding. [10]
After the morbid fancies of the preceding evening he felt sad and depressed. [10]
Has any one ever tried to put upon paper all the little happenings connected with a dear one--happenings of the twenty-four hours preceding the sudden and unexpected death of that dear one? [5]
I close this, entertaining the confident hope that every successive letter I shall have from you (which I here pray may not be few, nor far between) may show you possessing a more steady hand and cheerful heart than the last preceding it. [7]
And if the edges of these were being rounded off, was there not developing in the extreme West a type of men different from all preceding, which the world could not yet define? [4]
During the three days preceding the occupation of Moscow the whole Rostov family was absorbed in various activities. [2]
Reinstating the first condition omitted, that of time, we see that no command can be executed without some preceding order having been given rendering the execution of the last command possible. [2]
While Klea had been listening to the conversation between Euergetes and Eulaeus, Cleopatra had been sitting in her tent, and allowing herself to be dressed with no less care than on the preceding evening, but in other garments. [10]
Of course everybody at the Institute was full of the terrible adventure of the preceding evening. [6]
The events described and the characters delineated in these two volumes had, perhaps, less peculiar interest for English and American readers than some of those which had lent attraction to the preceding ones. [6]
Life is such a curious succession of contradictions and surprises that I record here without comment the fact that I was seeing much more of Nancy since her marriage than I had in the years preceding it. [9]
In order to a clear understanding of what the Missouri Compromise is, a short history of the preceding kindred subjects will perhaps be proper. [7]

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