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  • A few country carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropo - lis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream.

    Sole Music 2010

  • A few country carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropo - lis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream.

    Tales of Terror and Mystery Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1963

  • A few country carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropo - lis, but the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as some city in a dream.

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950

  • What a difmal example of thefe truths did not the riots in 1780 afford in the metropo - lis and its vicinity?

    Constitutional letters in answer to Mr. Paine's Rights of man 1792

  • Many battles were fought under the wSh of diat metropo - lis, which ferved only to increaie the number of Odenatas's

    An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780

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