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Examples

• You made a quiet little round game of it, among a family group, and you played it out at leisure. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I quickened my pace, and, passing among them, wondering at their looks, went hurriedly in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was the first, or among the first of locks which troubled modern burglars' picks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In the service I mentally insert Miss Shepherd's name--I put her in among the Royal Family. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Most of its issues are still undecided among Christians to this day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By degrees the anarchy finds a way into private houses, and ends by getting among the animals and infecting them. Plato. The Republic.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Upon the main caravan routes the chief towns rose to a certain second-rate prosperity, and foremost among them were Medina and Mecca. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Among them was a letter from Betteredge. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The rest get among the spittoons and pipes or lean against the piano. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Only among the seats are there left any of your fighting-men, and they and the slave women are fast being cut down. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I must part with you for my whole life: I must begin a new existence among strange faces and strange scenes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Muhammad was knocked down and nearly killed, and there was much running away among his followers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Still, the same quiet life went on at the little cottage, and the same cheerful serenity prevailed among its inmates. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Among the important and interesting achievements of chemistry in the Nineteenth Century is the _artificial production of organic compounds_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The only independent one among them, he warned her that she was doing too much for this man, and was placing herself too unreservedly in his power. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• With this you may discover the spy among you, he said. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Among the earliest fire-arms of this period one was invented which was a breech-loader and revolver. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It is suggestive that among the Greeks, till the rise of conscious philosophy, the same word, techne, was used for art and science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The merry King, nothing heeding his dignity any more than his company, laughed, quaffed, and jested among the jolly band. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at the result of his campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Besides, why don't my old friends keep me among them? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Clennam, harassed by more anxieties than one, was among this devoted band. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Among his other advantages, Lord Raymond was supremely handsome; every one admired him; of women he was the idol. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am not ignorant that old Mr. Ablewhite has the reputation generally (especially among his inferiors) of being a remarkably good-natured man. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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