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The months in which hurricanes are common are thofe between the end of September and March; they owe their origin apparently to winds con - tending with the monfoons; and to a fimilar caufe muft die fudden gufts be attributed in the China feas.
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The twenty-lfecond day we were in latitude one degree twenty minutes fouth, and bdng about three leagues from the ifland flanding to the fouthward, with a very gentle land wind, about two or three o'clock in the moiliing we heard a clafhing in the water, like boats rowing; and fearing fome fudden attack, we got up all our arms, and flood ready to defend ourfelves.
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However valuable they are for fudden emergencies, and in this way too much reliance cannot be placed on them; economy, hoth to them and the government, forbid their ufe for other purpofes Their ftate of difcipline and | infubordin? tion, (except in tie feoe of danger,) circumfbances growing out of the freedom of oar inftitutions; the wafte of public property, which he could illoftrateby ftrong facts, all unite to diffuade us from this refort.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The fudden fur - prize which I felt on being founexpeftedly poflef - fed of what I had fo much wilhed for, quite dif« concerted me.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Here a great number of mulkcts are kept, ready charged, with which the nobles may arm themfelves, on any fudden emergency.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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While I was loft in ruminating on the precious moments I had fpent in Fanny's company, my attention was diverted by the fudden appearance oi a countryman whom the ruftic maiden was
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Her lovely boy, Ihocked at the fudden change, gave a loud cry, and fprang to catch his mother in his arms ..
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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But Bourbon, who might have expected every thing to which an ambitious mind can afpire, from the doating fondnefs of a woman who governed her fon and the kingdom, incapable of imitating Louifa in her fudden tranfition from hate to love, or of meanly counterfeit - ing apafiion for one who had fo long purfued 'lim'with unprovoked malice, rejected the match with difdain, and turned the propofal into ridicule.
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** ITiis fudden defertion of Italians fhores, then, ** faid Carleton, "is to receive in the fair one's breaft the fmothered flames of love?"
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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But by reafon of the cruelty with which it was profecuted, and of the temerity with which it afterwards infpired him, it was a principal caufe of his fudden ruin and downfal.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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