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Examples
- In this place is an altar dedicated to St. Dimas, the penitent thief. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He pushed his face forward as he spoke and his lips and eyelids were continually twitching like a man with St. Vitus's dance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- They have been looking at the house in St. Peter's Place, next to Mr. Hackbutt's; it belongs to him, and he is putting it nicely in repair. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- St. Clare was stretched on a bamboo lounge in the verandah, solacing himself with a cigar. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He muttered something about leaving unexpectedly, in a great hurry, and having intended to write to her from St. Augustine. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Well, I won't go to any more of their cursed nonsense, Tom, said St. Clare; on my honor, I won't. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- St. Clare was at last willing to call in medical advice,--a thing from which he had always shrunk, because it was the admission of an unwelcome truth. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He persuaded them to start cutting the blocks for the Gospel of St. Matthew. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Duke of St. Austrey, who sat at his hostess's right, was naturally the chief figure of the evening. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- St. Clare, how will she ever get along in the world? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- To be sure, there isn't, said St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- O, certainly, she will discover that, and a world of wholesome truths besides, no doubt, said St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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