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• To have traveled in six years from the auction-block to the ballot with these people is an immense stride, and if we can carry this measure alone, of itself, we should be contented for the present The vote being taken on Mr. Cowan's amendment conferring the elective franchise upon women, the result was yeas, nine; nays, thirty-seven. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• He half-paused in his stride, then averting his gaze from the other man hurried forward a little. —  A Mating in the Wilds
• He changed his lunge in mid-stride, and brought his arm back with the knife. —  Police Your Planet
• There was a trace of indolence in her slow, reflective speech, as in her long, swinging stride--the indolence bred of unconscious strength rather than of weakness, the leisureliness which goes with staying power both in the moral and the physical domain See here, Nellie," she said, "forgive brutal frankness, but which is the real thing to-day--they're each delightful in their own way--the tears or the laughter Both! —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• Delmonico has gone on up-town stride by stride, and people have forgotten the old balcony where Jenny Lind sang, and Koenig played to a street packed with people. —  A Little Girl of Long Ago

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