At the time of the incidents I am about to relate, my office was in a respectable house in Twenty-fourth Street, New York City, and was shared, greatly to my own pleasure and convenience, by a clever young German whose acquaintance I had made in the hospital, and to whom I had become, in the one short year in which we had practised together, most unreasonably attached.— The Old Stone House and Other Stories
Sad to relate, they had been picked up two days afterwards at the mouth of the harbour, frozen to death.— Hurricane Hurry
Wonderful to relate, the sober sailor was there, waiting patiently, smoking his pipe with his arms folded, a picture of resignation.— Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin
Wonderful to relate, all the time not a man had been hit; and if we felt happy when we first got the frigate under way, we had reason to be doubly so when we found ourselves clear of the harbour and not a ship following us.— The Loss of the Royal George
Strange to relate, the Portuguese made no serious attempt to add Abyssinia to their dominions--possibly they did not think the task worth the trouble and expense; but they maintained some degree of power over the people through their religion, an influence whose effects were seen by Bruce and by other travellers of scarcely a hundred years ago--one not obliterated by tribal warfare and by a terrible, merciless coming of the Gallas from their country in the south In the year 1818 was born in Kaura, a child to whom the name Lij Kassi was given--a lad whose uncle was then governor of that part of Abyssinia.— Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign

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