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I took occasion to say at a public assembly hard-by, a month or two ago, in speaking of that wonderful building Mr. Paxton has designed for the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, that it ought to have fallen down, but that it refused to do so.

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With Virubov, I had been sitting on a bench near the wicket-gate of his hut, as intermittently he had screwed his lecherous eyes in the direction of the stout, ox-eyed lacemaker, Madame Ezhov, who, after disposing of her form on a bank hard-by, had fallen to picking lice out of the curls of her eight-year-old Petka

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Whereupon, no one tiring, they proceeded, dancing always, through the hard-by village of Enney up to Château D'Oex in the Pays-d'en-Haut, and wonderful was it to see the people in all the villages they passed joining in that joyous band.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

Boone's four mates barely had time to take cover below the hard-by river bank -- under Boone's orders -- before fire opened.

The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

House, as he went in, I have half a Dozen _Mirmidons_ hard-by shall beat it about your Ears.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Sometimes I stayed in my chair by the roadside; more often I escaped from the noise and dirt of the village to some spot outside, among the rice - and bean-fields, where the pony could gather a few scant mouthfuls of grass while I sat hard-by on a turf balk and enjoyed the quiet and clean air.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

There was the moose trampling and snorting hard-by, in the shallows of Ripogenus, trampling out of being the whole nadir of stars, making the world conscious of its lost silence by the death of silence in tumult.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

Kalgan stands hard-by the Great Wall; here China and Mongolia meet, and the two races mingle in its streets.

A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

He had not long ago decamped, and was now, perhaps, sucking the meditative paw hard-by in an arbor of his bear-garden.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

He led the Hamadryad to a forest pool hard-by the oak-tree in which she resided.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918