Places

Examples

• You perceive several places where it has passed across and obliterated the more shallow mark of the front one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The same girl who feeds the gum into the wrapping machine closes the lids of the boxes and places them on a packing table by her side. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Go before me and show me all those dreadful places. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But there was a systematic hunt for the copies of Holy Writ, and in many places a systematic destruction of Christian churches. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And the only way he could get to know anatomy as he did, was by going to snatch bodies at night, from graveyards and places of execution. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A brilliant liter ary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• You have not come up to London, of all places in the world, to tell us that, my dear Sir, have you? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We must then pay the salaries in order to enrich ourselves with these places. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Some miles from New Carthage the levee to Bayou Vidal was broken in several places, overflowing the roads for the distance of two miles. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants of our carnivorous animals become, the more places they will be enabled to occupy. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Therefore the young man, slightly too dictatorial, directed the guests to their places. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Mr. Dowler paid his bill, and hurried out with his travelling cap, coat, and cloak; and Mr. Pickwick and his friends followed to secure their places. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We have changed places, Percival, for once, and Madame Fosco's opinion is--mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• All the unowned dogs who stray into the Inns of Court and pant about staircases and other dry places seeking water give short howls of aggravation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• A more authentic tradition, aided by the geography of the country, places the pit in Dothan, some two days' journey from here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Finally the fire communicated with our breastworks, in places. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Nay, the very animals in a democratic State have a freedom which is unknown in other places. Plato. The Republic.
• Gerald had penetrated all the outer places of Gudrun's soul. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And I know brickmakers go about working at piecework in different places. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He got upon that road, destroyed its bridges at different places and rendered the road useless to the enemy up to within a few miles of Lynchburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But that she held George's hand in her own, perhaps she would have liked to change places with. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If the contents of the silo heat up to different degrees in different places we cannot expect them to be uniform in quality, though all will be eaten by the stock. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• There was a morning concert advertised for to-morrow, and Samuel was ordered to take places for a large party, including a place for Mr. Ablewhite. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Here and there, the set of the current had worn down the bank into a little creek, and we were all suspicious of such places, and eyed them nervously. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Why, send them to the calaboose, or some of the other places to be flogged. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Few ways of life were hidden from Physician, and he was oftener in its darkest places than even Bishop. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Adding machines may be found at work in all kinds of business places from corner groceries to department stores and manufacturing plants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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