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She became his “instantly elected sweetheart out of the remotenesses of interior Missouri” for a brief idyll that enlarged itself in his imagination at least until four years before his death.25
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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She became his “instantly elected sweetheart out of the remotenesses of interior Missouri” for a brief idyll that enlarged itself in his imagination at least until four years before his death.25
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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God, the sublime and supreme God, the authentic Creator of the real universe, whose remotenesses are visited by comets only comets unto which incredible distant Neptune is merely an out post, a Sandy
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Maker of all things, whose body, mayhap — glimpsed part-wise from the earth by night, and receding and lost to view in the measureless remotenesses of space — is what men name the
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All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
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Both of them had a poetic interest in geology, its infinite remotenesses and its testimonies.
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Our young friend from the remotenesses at the eastern end of the Euxine sent ambassadors acute enough to discover the secret weakness of all us Romans — money!
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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What sights and adventures might not await him in the remotenesses of Mayapan?
Conan Of The Isles De Camp, L. Sprague 1968
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Some are still toiling in the remotenesses of mountain villages; others are dashing about Manila in the midst of its feverish society.
A Woman's Impression of the Philippines Mary Helen Fee
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By this time it had reached the remotenesses of Egypt that it was the God of the Hebrews.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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