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In this lifelike journey the two companions come in contact with many of Satan's up-to-date schemes, and witness his far-extended operations in many a wicked realm.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member A twentieth century allegory
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During the last week two rivers have again formed the main scenes of action in the far-extended theatre of war -- one the Yser, in Belgium, where the advance of the Germans on Calais has been "stone-walled" by the
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On going to the back of the house I plainly heard the crackling made by the burning brushwood, and saw the flames coming toward us in a far-extended line.
New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes
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Neville Trueman toiled through the wintry woods, the snowdrifts, and the storms to break the bread of life to the scattered congregations of his far-extended circuits.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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Red Cross officer, Major Williams, of Baltimore, saw doughboys on every front and sector of the far-extended battle and blockhouse line.
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead
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Bharata, seated on a conch, O king, overlaid with a celestial bed and attached to a far-extended bough of that banian, a boy, O great king, of face fair as the lotus or the moon, and of eyes, O ruler of men, large as petals of a full blown lotus!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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They cannot even tell to which side victory inclines in a long, far-extended battle until recognizable changes in the positions of the combatants show what the successes or failures must have been.
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For greater caution they had removed their shoes; and each damsel, as she paraded, dangled from each far-extended hand a shoe.
Seventeen 1915
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And the shining glory of this conquest will eclipse all those so far-extended beams of the Spanish nation.
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For greater caution they had removed their shoes; and each damsel, as she paraded, dangled from each far-extended hand a shoe.
Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907
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