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  • It was natural enough, to go straight from the Market-place, to the

    Pictures from Italy 2007

  • Market-place, there was great weeping and distress; in the midst of which, one worthy citizen, named Eustace de Saint Pierre, rose up and said, that if the six men required were not sacrificed, the whole population would be; therefore, he offered himself as the first.

    A Child's History of England 2007

  • Market-place, saluting the market-women right and left, and giving

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • Here, in the old Market-place, up one long broad staircase, were situated the two rooms in which was held the bank of Heine Brothers.

    Tales of all countries 2004

  • “I bought you some books, madam,” said Janet, “from a lame fellow who sold them in the Market-place — and who stared something boldly, at me, I promise you.”

    Kenilworth 2004

  • Six hundred men were beheaded in the Market-place of Al-Madinah, their property was plundered, and their wives and children were reduced to slavery.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • With a cautious glance toward the torchlit Tower, the young man crossed the open Market-place, headed toward the School of the Games and the ramshackle houses that lay in the western slums of the city.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • The goods sold in the Market-place seemed tawdry and cheap: shoddy earthen-ware statuary from Thoradin replaced the customary carved stone, the scrimshaw from Balifor seemed abstract and rushed, and the scaleless fish from northern Karthay was the worst of all failures.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • They also would have jurisdiction of all crimes committed by those unfortunate individuals who were not members of any gens, and of crimes committed on territory not belonging to any gens, such as the Teocalli, Market-place, and

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

  • Market-place, around which the Highlanders were drawn up with their arms.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. Mrs. Thomson

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