Though it has but half the extent of Rum, it is so well peopled, that there have appeared, not long ago, nine hundred and fourteen at a funeral.
Not long after we came to another range of black rocks, which had the appearance of broken pilasters, set one behind another to a great depth.
We travelled over a tract of ground near the sea, which, not long ago, suffered a very uncommon, and unexpected calamity.
Not long after, Stagirus, a colony of the Andrians, followed their example and revolted.
Not long ago he would have thought it impossible that he could ever come to dislike music, which throughout his life had been to him a solace and an inspiration; but now he began to shrink from the sound of it.
And yet you were fast friendsnot long ago, weren't you?
Not long ago, she went so far as to call upon me here and accuse me to my face, telling me I was afraid of what she knew against me.
Government, not long afterward, promoted one of these authors to a bishopric.
These good people declared to Seetzen that they had seen these fruits, and that, not long before, a basketful of them which had been sent to a merchant of Jaffa had turned to ashes.
But most noteworthy in this matter was it that the English Government, not long after, scanning the horizon to find some man to take up the good work laid down by the lamented Bishop Fraser, of Manchester, chose Dr.
Not long ago a retired tradesman, happening to be in a public-house, where such things were connived at, allowed himself to be induced to play at Tommy Dodd with two low sharpers.
Not long ago, however, I witnessed a sad and striking scene of it at Twickenham.
Not long since an advertisement appeared, and was noticed by several of the papers, purporting to enable any person to realize a large fortune by a small advance to the advertiser.
Not long ago, I awoke one morning and suddenly thought of the Correspondence between Goethe and Schiller; and so impatient did I become to open the book that I got up an hour earlier than usual.
Not long since I should have fretted over the possibility, for my living depended on an avoidance of even seeming plagiarism.
Not long afterwards he saw the Cocks fighting together and not separating before one had well beaten the other.
Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf.
I have one silver piece found there (1653) not long since, of Constantine the Great.
Not long after, another hawk pitched on one of the crowns.
Not long after he had received this monitory letter, he rode towards Salisbury, and was robbed and murdered; and the murderers were discovered by this very letter, and were executed.
Not long afterwards, three other straggling members of the main expedition made their appearance.
Young people don't always know what they're about, you know; it's not long to wait.
Not long since a man of genius took a lump of formless clay, and beneath the cunning of his hand there grew a great symbol of life.
Not long ago I went into the public library of a university town in England and established confidence by saying, "I see that Chivers does your binding," whereupon the librarian invited me inside the railing.
As an instance, not long since I found a little girl in our department who had been frequently caught pilfering.
Not long ago, shortly after the publication of his book, the lawyer had occasion to cross-examine a modest-looking young woman as to the speed of an electric car.
Not long ago a celebrated case of murder was moved for trial after the defendant's lawyer had urged him in vain to offer a plea of murder in the second degree.
Not long past, a well-dressed Italian of good appearance and address rented an office in the World Building.
Not long since, I heard the Bishop of Oxford preach to a very great congregation.
Not long since, sitling on the box of a highland coach of most extraordinary shape, I travelled through Glenorchy and along Loch Awe side.
Not long before my arrival a Mexican mail-car had been wrecked, and between the ceiling and the outer wall were found over forty thousand letters postal clerks had opened and thrown there.
Not long before, there had been a cave-in just beyond where we were working, and the several men imprisoned there had not been rescued, so that now and then a skull and portions of skeleton came down with the rock.
They were of Lower Egypt, and gave out that, not long before, the Christians had subdued their country, and obliged them to embrace Christianity on pain of being put to death.
She crossed the continent in a rush and spied on us through British Columbia and on down the Columbia river, not long ago, and I can recommend her as a very desirable bird of the air.
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