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• They are also quite dry--owing, probably, to their being drained by the new workings adjacent to them, and descending to a far greater depth In the first place, they were excavated as far down, no doubt, as the water permitted; that is, to a vertical depth of about 100 yards, or, in dry seasons, even lower, as may be seen by the watermarks left in some of them. —  Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
• But "The Gray Brother" is a mere fragment which Scott never would complete--owing, perhaps, to a secret consciousness, that he had already marred the unity of the poem by sketching in a modern landscape behind his antique figures. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• A carriage is engaged Upon arriving at headquarters they found that--owing to the forethought of Colonel Tempe--they were expected for, upon sending in their names, they were at once admitted; although several officers, of all grades, were waiting in the anteroom The colonel of the staff gave a movement of surprise There is some mistake here," he said, to the orderly who had shown them in; "I ordered the Lieutenants Barclay to be admitted These are the gentlemen who gave me the card, colonel," the orderly answered It is so," Ralph said. —  The Young Franc Tireurs And Their Adventures in the Franco-Prussian War
• It was seen that--owing to the slow progress the troops were making--the baggage train, consisting of 1000 camels, would not be able to reach the proposed camping ground, at the lower end of the valley, before dark.
• The Dedborough picture in the market--owing to horrid little circumstances that regard myself alone--is the Dedborough picture at a decent, sufficient, civilised Dedborough price, and nothing else whatever; which I beg you will take as my last word on the subject Lord John, trying whether he could take it, momentarily mingled his hushed state with that of their hostess, to whom he addressed a helpless look; after which, however, he appeared to find that he could only reassert himself. —  The Outcry

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