She tried to reach the vase but overbalanced herself and fell off the stool. |
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The team fell behind in the first half but rallied in the second half to win the game. |
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Meanwhile, her brother Branwell fell into a rapid decline punctuated by dramas, drunkenness, and delirium. |
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Both kingdoms fell in the great assaults of the Danish Viking armies in the 9th century. |
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Historically these paths were not planned for reaching summits, but more recently they are used by fell walkers for that purpose. |
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Many are now being used as farm buildings, while others were abandoned and fell into ruin. |
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Elements like fell, thwaite and tarn, which are particularly common in Cumbria, are all Norse. |
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Parts of the North West experienced a White Christmas in 2009, and again in 2010, where sleet and snow fell on 25 December. |
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The Isle of Man fell under English control in the 14th century, despite several attempts to restore Scottish authority. |
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James V did not share his father's interest in developing a navy and shipbuilding fell behind that of the Low Countries. |
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Norse was also widely spoken in the parts of England which fell under Danish law. |
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I told him you were just a friend, and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. |
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So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust. |
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This occurred in 2001, when a large chunk of the edge, as large as a football pitch, fell into the Channel. |
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At the Summer Solstice 2003 which fell over a weekend over 30,000 people attended a gathering at and in the stones. |
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With the first systematic lowering of the Swiss lakes from 1868 to 1883, the site fell completely dry. |
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The result was that control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of voters, but to the new plebeian nobility. |
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The long military campaigns had forced citizens to leave their farms to fight, while their farms fell into disrepair. |
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As commodity prices fell, many farmers could no longer operate their farms at a profit. |
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After it fell, Constantius attacked Carausius's other Gallic holdings and Frankish allies and Carausius was usurped by his treasurer, Allectus. |
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Boudica's army fell on the poorly defended city and destroyed it, besieging the last defenders in the temple for two days before it fell. |
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Tacitus relates a rumour that 80,000 Britons fell for the loss of only 400 Romans. |
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Alexander Demandt enumerated 210 different theories on why Rome fell, and new ideas have emerged since. |
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Without an authoritative ruler, the Balkan provinces fell rapidly into disorder. |
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In 409 Olympius fell to further intrigue, having his ears cut off before he was beaten to death. |
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Gerontius then fell out with his master and elevated one Maximus as his own puppet emperor. |
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When they divided at last into warring factions the empire fell, unable to keep out invading armies. |
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These hospitals were specific places for only military members to go to if they were injured or fell ill. |
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The tears fell fast from the maiden's eyes as she closed her impassioned appeal, and hid her face in the bosom of her sister. |
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To the west, Bede describes the boundary with the Kingdom of Wessex as being opposite the Isle of Wight, and which later fell on the River Ems. |
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But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe. |
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This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences. |
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Thereafter, the world ranking of the Norwegian merchant navy fell from fourth place to sixth in the world. |
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The town held out for 18 days, and after it fell to William he built a castle to secure his control. |
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While seizing Mantes, William either fell ill or was injured by the pommel of his saddle. |
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Louis fell ill and withdrew from the campaign, and Geoffrey was forced to come to terms with Henry. |
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I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill. |
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Luckily enough, Louis fell ill and had to retire from the conflict while Henry's defences held against his enemies. |
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Back in England, early in 1262, Edward fell out with some of his former Lusignan allies over financial matters. |
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Margaret, by now seven years of age, sailed from Norway for Scotland in the autumn of 1290, but fell ill on the way and died in Orkney. |
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In a short time, the coney fell asleep, when the inkalimeva went in and ate all the fat. |
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The two kings were on the point of taking Paris with their great army, when the French king fell by the hands of an assassin. |
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The old line of locks in Runcorn fell into disuse in the late 1930s, and they were closed under the Ship Canal Act of 1949 and filled in. |
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Starting with the Great Famine in 1315 and the Black Death from 1348, the population of Europe fell abruptly. |
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After some of them fell to looting, they were driven out of London by by the citizens. |
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Henry recovered in 1455 and once again fell under the influence of those closest to him at court. |
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Wolsey fell from favour as a result of his failure to procure the annulment, and Henry appointed Thomas Cromwell in his place. |
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In November 1476, Henry's protector fell ill and his principal advisers were more amenable to negotiating with the English king. |
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Catherine did not protest, and in 1518 fell pregnant again with another girl, who was also stillborn. |
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Without the Mass and pastoral care, yeomen, artisans and husbandmen fell into conformism. |
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When his wife fell ill in 1558, King Philip sent the Count of Feria to consult with Elizabeth. |
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When the masked stranger hew with his axe, the baker's head did split in twain and his body fell like a lump to the ground in turn. |
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Mysore finally fell to the company forces in 1799, with the death of Tipu Sultan. |
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His means of raising English revenue without an English Parliament fell critically short of achieving this. |
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With the death of the Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell in 1658, the Commonwealth fell into a period of instability. |
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The much stronger castle at Pembroke, however, fell only after a siege of eight weeks. |
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It fell to the Queen to appoint Harold Macmillan as the new prime minister, after taking the advice of ministers. |
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A series of financial reforms started by the Directory finally took effect after it fell from power. |
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In 1788, Pitt faced a major crisis when the King fell victim to a mysterious illness, a form of mental disorder that incapacitated him. |
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George seemed unperturbed by the incident, so much so that he fell asleep in the interval. |
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He fell back to a previously reconnoitred position on an escarpment at Mont St Jean, a few miles south of the village of Waterloo. |
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I believe I gave a scream and fell back, and for ten hours I could neither speak nor shed a tear. |
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An Allied division under Thomas Picton met the remainder of D'Erlon's corps head to head, engaging them in an infantry duel in which Picton fell. |
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The Whig Government fell in 1832 and Wellesley was unable to form a Tory Government partly because of a run on the Bank of England. |
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Despite the Conservative landslide, his own majority fell by more than a thousand. |
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He fell asleep at the controls of his Ju 88 and woke up to discover the entire crew asleep. |
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Damage was inflicted on the port installations, but many bombs fell on the city itself. |
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Agricultural prices fell much harder and faster than those of industrial goods. |
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Lamont fell out with John Major after Black Wednesday and became highly unpopular with the public. |
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My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain. |
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Before that date, however, the Liberal Government of William Ewart Gladstone fell. |
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The Hunnic threat remained until Attila's death in 453, when the Hunnic confederation he led fell apart. |
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The station was built in an area of open fell and farmland in the township of Applethwaite. |
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In the second half of the 20th century these traditional clothes fell out of fashion. |
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This original association fell away when the company merged with British Leyland. |
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The ball flew to its mark like a martin to his gourd and Lucky Ned Pepper fell dead in the saddle. |
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During his absence the queen fell ill, and after lingering for some time she died. |
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He fell between the two tracks, but the 'Rocket ran over his leg which was fouling the rail, shattering it. |
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With the fall of the Soviet Union, most Soviet military hovercraft fell into disuse and disrepair. |
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The infinitesimal approach fell out of favor in the 19th century because it was difficult to make the notion of an infinitesimal precise. |
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Two boys got electrocuted when a live wire fell on the auto-rickshaw in which they were sitting. |
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As road competition increased, many existing lines fell into decline and few new railways were built. |
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Archaeologists speculate that the temple builders fell victim to famine or disease, but this is not certain. |
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Malta remained under the Byzantine Empire until 870, when it fell to the Arabs. |
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The railway fell into disuse and eventually closed altogether, following the introduction of electric trams and buses. |
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Trade between western Europe and the rest of Eurasia suffered a severe blow when the Roman Empire fell in the 5th century. |
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But the report fell into the hands of Macrinus, who felt he must act or die. |
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In the early 17th century, the last Gaelic kingdoms in Ireland fell under English control. |
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Though Low church continued to be used for those clergy holding a more liberal view of Dissenters, the term eventually fell into disuse. |
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The church soon fell into disrepair and was dilapidated by 670 when Saint Wilfrid ascended to the See of York. |
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Many crews worked for hours and some were on high levels of the minster at the time when the South transept roof fell in. |
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The failure to grow was signaled by the flagging experience of the Sunday schools, whose enrollments fell steadily. |
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But he believed they fell into heresy by supporting quietism, so he decided to form his own followers into a separate society. |
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According to myth, Saint George was cut into 365 pieces after he fell in battle and every single piece was spread throughout the entire country. |
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However, on 7 May he fell into a trap laid for him by Richard Rich, who was to perjure himself to obtain Thomas More's conviction. |
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The first time that this ceremony took place was on Vaisakhi, which fell on 30 March 1699 at Anandpur Sahib in Punjab. |
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After the end of gladiatorial games in the 5th century and of staged animal hunts in the 6th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair. |
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Hadrian's Wall fell into ruin and over the centuries the stone was reused in other local buildings. |
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It thus fell into disuse until 1841 when it was used as a corridor through which to access the keep. |
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In the great earthquake of 1382 the campanile fell, destroying the first three named bells. |
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The style fell markedly out of favor in the 1930s, replaced by the more grandiose nationalist styles that Stalin favored. |
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He fell in love with the cheese and made a business arrangement that granted the Bell Inn exclusive marketing rights to Blue Stilton. |
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After Oxford fell to the Parliamentarians, in June 1646, Dobson returned to London. |
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When the unsuspecting Holofernes fell into a drunken slumber, Judith severed his head with a sword. |
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After he fell into debt, a parliamentary committee on the administration of the law charged him with 23 separate counts of corruption. |
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Savage's friends tried to help him by attempting to persuade him to move to Wales, but Savage ended up in Bristol and again fell into debt. |
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Before the expedition could sail, on 15 February 1824, he fell ill, and the usual remedy of bloodletting weakened him further. |
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When she returned, Shelley fell madly in love with her, repeatedly threatening to commit suicide if she didn't return his affections. |
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He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, who in 1792 gave birth to their daughter Caroline. |
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On the death of Mr. B., the annuity, which he had so long received, fell in. |
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She fell into the cold water and nearly died from hypothermia. |
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They put up a good defense, but the city ultimately fell to the invaders. |
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And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace. |
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Without a plausible explanation for what might have provoked an ice age, the whole theory fell into abeyance. |
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With female adaptiveness she fell in with his humour, and looked at the world through his eyes. |
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Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place. |
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Under attack by the eighteenth-century Rationalists, antisuicide laws gradually fell into disuse. |
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Louisa sat in the car crying, until her foot fell asleep. She shook her foot violently, afraid the numbness would turn to frostbite. |
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Test backrower Crocker, 28, had hinted that he would consider retiring if the three-year English deal fell through. |
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Mrs. MacAndrew smoothed down the lap of her gown, and gold bangles fell over her wrists. |
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Two shafts of soft daylight fell across the flagged floor from the high barbacans. |
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Sure and begorra, 'twas the second time I lost me balance and fell into yer drink. |
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The besmalled position shocks Tusker to fell sick for a long time and finally die when he is asked to vacate the Lodge. |
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Then I cut the flesh into bittocks And Shahrazad was surprised by the dawn of day and fell silent and ceased to say her permitted say. |
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As the bombs fell on the city, the woman blithely continued with her chores. |
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Then, suddenly, the singing fell upon us and broke the silence into ruins. It was in the nature of a breach of the peace. |
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A bristle was a loaded or crooked dice. lt was specially weighted which meant that it fell on whichever number the bristler chose. |
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The southerly caught the tree and tipped it. It fell with a crash, pinning a large brush-tailed possum to the ground. |
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And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. |
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The Chalchese immediately fell on the Mexicans, and they were all destroyed. |
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Then a clutch of long sharp icicles broke from a chandelierlike mass above his head and fell, shattering around the piano like glass swords. |
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The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair. |
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Then he strolled back again, kicking his heels carelessly, and a companionable silence fell between the three men. |
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The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken. |
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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. |
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The cradle was ill-made. One victim fell into the sea and was lost and the ensuing delay cost three more lives. |
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I quickly fell in love with El Barrio, where I ate cuchifrito and listened to music on the rooftop with my neighbors. |
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The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm. |
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But Tower did better than HBO, the Boston Business Journal, and some others, where the test messages apparently fell into a cyberhole. |
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After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the prinicipal party members were denaturalized and deported. |
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In primitive, diaperless societies, infants' excrement simply fell to the floor of the cave or jungle or desert. |
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Sitting on the chair's edge, he shrugged a shoulder until his dolman fell into place, then balanced his helmet on his knee like a pampered pet. |
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One of his feete unwares from him did slide, That downe hee fell into the deepe abisse, 545 Where drownd with him is all his earthlie blisse. |
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The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in. |
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Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron. |
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So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail. |
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Then he reached down and picked up the metal shelving from the thing and pushed it forward so it fell down on its other side with a loud crash. |
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Casca. He fell down in the market-place, and foamed at mouth, and was speechless. |
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The last restoration was carried out in 1963 after stone 23 of the Sarsen Circle fell over. |
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Though he fell off the wagon several times, he eventually succeeded in quitting. |
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I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise. |
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On the contrary, instead of wholeheartedly defending Chase, Marshall fell over himself to accommodate his accusers. |
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Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will. |
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After James fell in with fast company he started doing drugs and sleeping around. |
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Some hounds fell on the fewte left by the fox, Using their craft to cross and cross again. |
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It fell above all on Northern Frankland, and soon the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine were full of pirate squadrons. |
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Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable. |
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In 1899, galelike winds loosened stones, and Lawrence Brignolia, a blacksmith from suburban Cambridge, was leading when he fell on one. |
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Ay, even the droll humour and solidity of Khalid, are shaken, aroused, by the ghoulish greed, the fell inhumanity of these sharpers. |
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While in Bonn, at the time of Gorbymania, I fell in with part of the Russian entourage. |
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Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good. |
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Then he set the jug down wrong side up, and remained glaring at it fixedly, while his chest rose and fell in deep heavings. |
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She'd been wearing heels, and fell backward off her right heel and twisted or broke her ankle. |
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In 1021 Thorkel the Tall also fell from favour and was outlawed. |
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On 13 May, Vienna fell for the second time in four years, although the war continued since most of the Austrian army had survived the initial engagements in Southern Germany. |
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Where not a Silver Iyng, or Pigeon, fell To Pay the Markman. |
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Another is the Battle of Deorham in 577, after which the significant cities of Bath, Cirencester and Gloucester fell and the Saxons reached the western sea. |
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As night fell, the Spanish fleet broke off and sailed for Cadiz. |
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Postumus, on hearing of the Roman victory, fell on his sword. |
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He fell to the deck, a flap of torn skin obscuring his good eye. |
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At the hearing of this voice, the horsse whereon Dunstane rode fell downe and died, being not able to abide the presence of the angell that thus spake to Dunstane. |
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This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another? |
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After the end of gladiatorial games in the 5th century and of animal killings in the 6th, most amphitheatres fell into disrepair, and their materials were mined or recycled. |
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Edwin ordered the small wooden church be rebuilt in stone but was killed in 633 and the task of completing the stone minster fell to his successor Oswald. |
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Soon after the Feast of Easter 337, Constantine fell seriously ill. |
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In 1828, she fell ill with smallpox while visiting them in Paris. |
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After the death of Robert Guiscard in 1085, peninsular southern Italy experienced a series of civil wars and fell under the control of increasingly weaker princes. |
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They bewent, asmirking, And I, awakening, fell straight aworking. |
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In the years after the Festival of Empire the building fell into disrepair, as the huge debt and maintenance costs became unsustainable, and in 1911 bankruptcy was declared. |
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Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable, and which the doctor admonished them to keep to themselves. |
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This was continued into the 1930s that fell in line with the Soviet Union's subversion policy of popular fronts to increase communists' influence in governments. |
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At age 18, while visiting his aunt, Lady Wimborne, in Bournemouth, Winston fell 29 feet from a bridge, leaving him unconscious for three days and bedridden for three months. |
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It was ruled by the Wuffingas in the 7th and 8th centuries, but fell to Mercia in 794, and was conquered by the Danes in 869, forming part of the Danelaw. |
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The theory was breath-catching, but quickly fell apart when the accountant could give no account of what Sibyl might have done with Theresa's body. |
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He really fell for the attractive waitress at his favorite restaurant. |
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As sea levels fell alluvium was deposited near major river estuaries and the 'Great Estuary' near Burgh Castle became slowed closed off by a large spit. |
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He returned on 7 October, but Antwerp fell on 10 October with 2,500 British men, many of them barely trained, take prisoner or interned in the neutral Netherlands. |
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England's World Cup dreams fell apart under a French onslaught on a night when their shortcomings were brutally exposed at the quarter-final stage. |
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He fell back relieved into his favourite camelback with a gin and tonic. |
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Churchill fell ill during the campaign, and had to have an appendectomy. |
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This became less important in the later Republic, as some plebeian families became wealthy and entered politics, and some patrician families fell economically. |
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To confuse the British, radio silence was observed until the bombs fell. |
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A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart. |
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And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw. |
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Supporting this, they claimed that Nicole must have borrowed money from one of Colombian drug Lords and so fell victim to Colombian necktie or necklace? |
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In spite of our arguments, we had much in common, both suburban London boys from unambitious working-class families, and fell easily into a cockney mateyness. |
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After Cnut's death in 1035 the English throne fell to Harold Harefoot, his son by his first wife, while Harthacnut, his son by Emma, became king in Denmark. |
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He then passed by the fellow, who still continued in the posture in which he fell, and entered the room where Northerton, as he had heard, was confined. |
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During this haul through the jungle, the Cornishmen and their Mexican helpers fell victim to yellow fever, resulting in 30 Cornish and 100 Mexican fatalities. |
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Eth fell out of use during the 13th century and was replaced by thorn. |
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When the House of Lancaster fell from power, the Tudors followed. |
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Stephen, however, fell ill with a stomach disorder and died on 25 October 1154, allowing Henry to inherit the throne rather sooner than had been expected. |
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Yet in 1524 Francis I of France retook the initiative, crossing into Lombardy where Milan, along with a number of other cities, once again fell to his attack. |
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These bombs were often abandoned if they fell in areas of little significant importance to the war effort, and continue to be found during construction work to this day. |
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The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell. |
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He almost fell on top of her, his mouth dabblingly seeking hers. |
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Gallia Aquitania fell under Visigothic rule in the 5th century. |
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After Henry II fell seriously ill in 1170, he put in place his plan to divide his kingdom, although he would retain overall authority over his sons and their territories. |
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However, this fell to only five seats after the 2011 election as a result of the widespread unpopularity of their coalition with the Conservative party at the UK level. |
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Financial markets fell sharply on the news of possible downgradings. |
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Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years. |
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There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls. |
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Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent. |
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But his attendance there fell apart, first when his father, a worker in a motor-tyre factory, was endorsed out of the town on an Order under the Urban Areas Act. |
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Thence once more the crew came on with swords and axes, but faint-heartedly, and the end of it was that they lost some more men dead and wounded and fell back again. |
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Among 36 members and employees of the Hong Kong Jockey Club who were seen in a trauma center during a period of 5 years, 24 fell from horses and 11 were kicked by the horse. |
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Like many areas of London and other British cities, the City fell victim to large scale and highly destructive aerial bombing during World War II, especially in the Blitz. |
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The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. |
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They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. |
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When the city fell the next year, this provided the English with a strategically important enclave that would remain in their possession for over two centuries. |
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In the English Civil War the city was besieged and fell to the forces of Cromwell in 1644, but Thomas Fairfax prevented any further damage to the cathedral. |
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It was inevitable that a catastrophe of such proportions would affect some of the greater building projects, as the amount of available labour fell sharply. |
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They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after. |
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Everything fell into place when he figured out who the murderer was. |
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After Woodes Rogers' 1718 landing at New Providence and his ending of the pirate republic, however, piracy in the West Indies fell into terminal decline. |
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We had not sailed twelve hours before we fell in with a gale, which lasted several days, and we kept under close-reef-topsails and storm-staysails. |
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He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck. |
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As lithium fell out of favor in France, valpromide came into play. |
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With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times. |
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Judge Charles R. Richey last week tried to apply some firm rules of law to such indelicate situations. He came close to succeeding, then fell on his face. |
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In 1962 the Gloster Aircraft Company closed down and its once famous runway fell victim of redistricting and it is now within the boundary of Hucclecote. |
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Then, in 1851, his treasured daughter Annie fell ill, reawakening his fears that his illness might be hereditary, and after a long series of crises she died. |
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Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained. |
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Whenever they fell ill, he feared that they might have inherited weaknesses from inbreeding due to the close family ties he shared with his wife and cousin, Emma Wedgwood. |
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The covers of the old book fell to pieces when I picked it up. |
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When I found out my mother had passed away that night, I fell to pieces. |
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He fell out of favor with the boxing fancy after the incident. |
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He achieved many of his political aims through the work of his chief ministers, some of whom were banished or executed when they fell out of his favour. |
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After the attempt at making the first difference engine fell through, Babbage worked to design a more complex machine called the Analytical Engine. |
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Cromwell, meanwhile, fell out of favour although it is unclear exactly why, for there is little evidence of differences of domestic or foreign policy. |
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Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles eventually fell to the Norsemen. |
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The Bee Gees' overwhelming success rose and fell with the disco bubble. |
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In 1536, Queen Anne fell from the king's favour and was beheaded. |
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Virtually the whole of the region fell to Saxe's ingenious generalship. |
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As a result, she fell even further into debt to support his demands. |
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Six nights gone, your brother fell upon my uncle Stafford, encamped with his host at a village called Oxcross not three days ride from Casterly Rock. |
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He said that he was dismayed by her appearance at Rochester having seen her pictures and heard advertisements of her beauty, so much that his face fell. |
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William Conqerour when he invaded this Iland, chanced at his arrival to be gravelled, and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand, that he fell to the ground. |
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Blood transfusions fell into obscurity for the next 150 years. |
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He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud. |
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The title of King of Scots fell out of use in 1707, when the Kingdom of Scotland was merged with the Kingdom of England to form a single Kingdom of Great Britain. |
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In early 1625, James was plagued by severe attacks of arthritis, gout, and fainting fits, and fell seriously ill in March with tertian ague and then suffered a stroke. |
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In November 1836 Dickens accepted the position of editor of Bentley's Miscellany, a position he held for three years, until he fell out with the owner. |
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Conditions were dangerous, with some children killed when they dozed off and fell into the path of the carts, while others died from gas explosions. |
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However, the stones fell short and landed near Boroughbridge instead. |
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The cause of death was a skull fracture, suffered when he fell from his horse while returning from a visit to Keats and his brother George at school. |
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Rail revenue fell and in 1955 the network again ceased to be profitable. |
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of people under British rule outside the UK itself fell from 700 million to five million, three million of whom were in Hong Kong. |
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Between us, with much trouble, we managed to hoist him upstairs, and laid him on his bed, where his head fell back on the pillow, as if he were almost fainting. |
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Large crowds had gathered to cheer the royal party, which apparently frightened the horses drawing the barge so much that they fell into the canal. |
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Nearly all of these canals were constructed to serve local industries, and fell derelict when faced with competition from other modes of transport. |
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When I first came to London and fell in with Sebastian and Evangeline, neither could hold their liquor, nor judge which glass should be their last. |
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On one occasion a driver fell asleep in the dandy cart of the preceding train and his horse, no longer being led, came to a stop and was run down by a locomotive. |
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There was once a widow, fair, young, free, rich, and withal very pleasant and jocund, that fell in love with a certain round and well-set servant of a college. |
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After several hours of combat, the prison fell that afternoon. |
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When the office of Attorney General fell vacant in 1594, Lord Essex's influence was not enough to secure the position for Bacon and it was given to Sir Edward Coke. |
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Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second. |
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After the Roman withdrawal from Britain in the first decade of the 5th century, these fell into disrepair and were eventually lost due to silting up, and flooding. |
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In 395, when the Roman Empire was divided for the last time at the death of Theodosius I, Malta, following Sicily, fell under the control of the Western Roman Empire. |
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Payne fell in love with her and in 1826 asked her to marry him. |
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