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NASA is still going across-country in a 1930's car, while everyone else is experimenting with Hybrids.
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As soon as the head of Brannan's column arrived I marched across-country to the left, and encamped that night at the little town of Millersburg, in the vicinity of Liberty Gap.
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We then struggled on in a northeasterly direction across-country, till we struck the Vaughn road.
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I hoped Sir Henry would give up the amusement, but by failure becoming only the more determined, in a second effort he cleared the wall handsomely and rode across-country to the villages.
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In 2005, shetrained for and began across-country trip on a recumbent bicycle, to celebrate coming into her 60th year.
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Airways, also, of course, you get thirsty on the flight, say you're going across-country, covering one of those hurricanes, right?
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The travellers several times saw bands of ferocious Indians, who, when they perceived the elephant striding across-country, made angry arid threatening motions.
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Deatonsville -- where the road forks, with a branch leading north toward the Appomattox -- to harass the retreating column and find a vulnerable point, I again shifted the rest of the cavalry toward the left, across-country, but still keeping parallel to the enemy's line of march.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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I hoped Sir Henry would give up the amusement, but by failure becoming only the more determined, in a second effort he cleared the wall handsomely and rode across-country to the villages.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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As soon as the head of Brannan's column arrived I marched across-country to the left, and encamped that night at the little town of Millersburg, in the vicinity of
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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