Nearly half of the diplomatic and consular appointments went to southerners, and eventually most of the Republicans were supplanted.
In addition, loans were extended to the Allies at the rate of nearly half a million dollars an hour.
After a combat of nearly half an hour, the redoubt was surrendered.
A level plain extended from the river to a gentle hill, nearly half a mile northward.
After ascending the southern bank, the road passes over a marsh ofnearly half a mile, and then traverses among gentle hills.
After a brisk cannonade of nearly halfan hour, Singleton, pursuant to orders, fell back to the second line.
Nearly half of French's men were shot down, and the remainder fell back.
And a week later, at Spottsylvania, nearly half of the remainder (123) were killed or wounded.
Booth, had a garrison of about five hundred and fifty men, nearly half of whom were colored.
The National loss in this affair was about one hundred and fifty men, nearly half of which fell upon the First Wisconsin Regiment.
In the county of Mayo, where the distress was peculiarly aggravated, nearly half a million sterling was expended in public works, in districts the Ordnance valuation of which was little more than half that amount.
After these and similar votes, a cash balance of nearly half a million sterling remained in hand.
Nearly half a million sterling was then advanced by England to aid the cause of the Spanish queen.
These are bluish or white stars and they are very abundant, nearly half of all the stars.
There are a large number of flower-heads, nearly half an inch in diameter, of a bright yellow colour, and arranged in large flat-topped corymbs.
Sternal incision cordate, deeper than in all other species of the genus, nearly half as long as the shell.
Mouth constricted, nearly half as broad as the thorax, with a broad hyaline peristome.
The fourth is inversely conical, and bears on the basal pole a strong, vertical, cylindrical spine, nearly half as long as the shell.
Nearly half of the people of this country devote their energies to growing things from the soil.
He was therefore no doubt naturally a very fast hawk; but I mention him in order to show how little difference, in his case, was made in his flying power by the loss of nearly half a tail.
This is done by making a half-knot round the shaft of the outer feather, nearly half-way down, passing the ends over and under the tail, and making a double knot of them on the shaft of the outer feather on the other side.
For from such a height--nearly half a mile high--there would always be a safe place into which the quarry might drop.
They are of an oblong form, flattened, often squarely or diagonally shortened at the ends, nearly half an inch in length, and three-tenths of an inch in width.
Nearly half of all the men and women who buy any New York evening paper buy the Evening Journal daily--and "Bill" Corum alone is a good reason.
Medullary shell ellipsoidal (with longitudinal main axis), nearly half as large as the cortical shell.
Radial spines conical, stout, nearly half as long as the radius.
Medullary shell ellipsoidal, nearly half as large as the cortical.
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