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  • We will make our excursions as I once proposed; and do you write to me now-and-then upon the subject; for the places and remarkables you will see, will be new only to yourself; nor will either of those ladies expect from you an itinerary, or a particular description of countries, which are better described by authors who have made it their business to treat upon those subjects.

    Pamela 2006

  • They show that the Clergy, generally, were indifferent to the subject, and required to be aroused from "neglect" and "sleepiness," touching the duty of flooding the public mind with stories of "wonders" and "remarkables;" and that the agency of the Mathers, in giving currency, by means of their ministry and influence, to such ideas, was peculiar and pre-eminent.

    Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply Charles Wentworth Upham 1838

  • After lunch to-day we (that is, Mrs. Hall, her adopted daughter, S-----, and I, with the Ex-Mayor) set forth, in an open barouche, to see the remarkables of Oxford, while the rest of the guests went on foot.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • After lunch to-day we (that is, Mrs. Hall, her adopted daughter, S-----, and I, with the Ex-Mayor) set forth, in an open barouche, to see the remarkables of Oxford, while the rest of the guests went on foot.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • With the remarkables of the year; including particularly the Lives of several Eminent Persons, both at Home and Abroad, that died therein.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

  • July 1st no remarkables Charles brot 4 Cows & Calves from Tho Wests, 4 ditto from Denis Syllava [nt] s Doctr

    Robert Carter Diary, 1726 1726

  • Americans of all political persuasions were demanding immediate action, and Roosevelt responded with a remarkables eries of new programs in the

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • I add to the list of remarkables and agreeables the Count and Countess de Segur, father and mother to our well-bred translator; [Footnote: Of

    The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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