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• According to our English notions I know my name. (10)
• Mr. Pempton appeared, according to anticipation. (10)
• They must cut their coat according to their cloth. (8)
• The wind according to its whim Is in and out of haven. (10)
• According to the explanation, Clotilde was hardly engaged. (10)
• My faults, according to this calculation, are heavy indeed! (4)
• She had a smile of very pleasant humour according to Vernon. (10)
• The men stopped and according to rule turned to face the enemy. (1)
• The Ironeist is one thing or another, according to his caprice. (10)
• According to what people say, he must have been just like the emperor. (12)
• For, as in all human tragedies, both were right according to their natures. (8)
• According to June, it was foolish and even cowardly to hide the past from Jon. (8)
• Shall cases be decided on their individual merits, or according to formal codes? (8)
• The next step in advance was, according to a German theory, invented by a woman. (17)
• According to the rumour, Morsfield and the woman Pagnell were very thick together. (10)
• Some people, according to an authority on circus matters, are born with a balance. (21)
• Action continuous, though the curtain is momentarily lowered according to that action. (8)
• Clelia Guidascarpi, according to his statement, had first been slain by her brothers. (10)
• They were the trousers of a man who, according to her experience, was not a gentleman. (13)
• According to degree of exposure, their faces were bloated and black or yellow and shrunken. (7)
• Our earliest Colonial houses were built according to traditions brought over from England. (17)
• Everything occurred according to his predictions, and he was entirely devoid of astonishment. (10)
• It appears according to Bob, that the squire had promised to see his son, and settle matters. (10)
• It appears according to Bob, that the squire had promised to see his son, and settle matters. (22)
• According to him, they wanted it both ways, and, so far as he could see, they meant to have it! (8)
• According to one informant she accompanied a Danish painter to Wassigny in the North of France. (12)
• Have you anything to say for yourself, why the Court should not give you judgment according to law? (8)
• My man has four names according to the tongue I address him in, Giacomo, Santiago, Jacques, James. (14)
• When he had finished one egg, behold, two fresh ones came in, boiled according to his prescription. (10)
• Interrupts business, especially when you have to ask them to fry themselves, according to the rules . (10)
• Ladies, according to their rank and privileges, saluted her on the cheek or in some graceful fashion. (10)
• The number of characters in use, according to manuscripts still preserved, varied from seven to forty. (3)
• According to the rumours, Mr. Radnor had not shown the symptoms before the appearance of his daughter. (10)
• He was, according to those who knew him, the bravest and most intelligent chief on the whole Continent. (19)
• The squire bade her to speak out, for she had his sanction to act according to her judgement and liking. (10)
• A woman, according to him, can have no ideal of life, except as a ball to toss in the air and catch in a cup. (10)
• According to the quantity of steam poured over the water, the latter could be heated to various temperatures. (17)
• According to their theory, there are eight sound-giving bodies: Stone, Metal, Silk, Bamboo, Wood, Skin, Gourd and Clay. (3)
• Coarse food, but then Harry was a youthful Englishman; and the Countess dieted the vanity according to the nationality. (10)
• Clara had been prepared, according to his directions, by Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson, as Vernon had been prepared by him. (10)
• Yet, according to the tale, it was the surviving servant, by whom he, or whoever it may have been, was accidentally shot. (10)
• According to Strabo, the Danube ended here and the Ister began, for the lower river was known to the Greeks as the Ιστρος. (20)
• A poor, brave, besotted, hateful man, who had done his duty resolutely according to his light both in the Cevennes and China. (2)
• And as we look at them, according to the state of our temper, we think: Poor creatures, I wish I could do something for them! (8)
• It is financed on a basis of weekly assessments levied, according to their size and custom, upon newspapers which are members. (16)
• After all, more than a Queen was going to her rest, a woman who had braved sorrow, lived well and wisely according to her lights. (8)
• The carpenter who builds in wood to-day builds according to certain customs which come down to him from centuries of carpenters. (17)
• According to them, an officer of that name had perished there in battle at some indistinct period before the beginning of history. (2)
• They were streaming with perspiration, and, according to their different temperaments, had faces of deep crimson or deadly pallor. (9)
• Pippin drove his long-tailed horses furiously; his eyes brimmed with subtle kindness, as if according Scorrier a continual welcome. (8)
• The boast will not be thought an empty one by those who have choice friends that have stocked themselves according to his directions. (10)
• According to Rose Mackrell, he, this Old Buccaneer, it was, who, by strange adventures, brought the great Welsh mines into the family! (10)
• She was dealing with an evil thing, and had chosen to act according to her light, and by the counsel of her combative and forceful temper. (22)
• Where any other couple would have seen danger, they saw safety; and they contrived to accomplish it, according to those horrid talebearers. (10)
• The Captain seized the book without wincing, and displayed a remarkable equanimity of countenance as he held it out, according to direction. (10)
• The point of her wit is in this fashion supplemented by the rattle of her tongue, and effectively, according to the testimony of her admirers. (10)
• At Pembina they passed the winter in tents, according to the Indian fashion, subsisting on the products of the chase, in common with the natives. (19)
• There dwelt an old man in Monastier, of rather unsound intellect according to some, much followed by street-boys, and known to fame as Father Adam. (2)
• Perceiving that she was sincerely acting according to her sense of principle, he fumed, and departed to his privacy, unable to stand it any longer. (10)
• This commission differs, according to the locality, ranging from 1 to 4 per cent on first mortgages, and from 5 per cent upward on second mortgages. (17)
• His name was printed, but merely in a fashionable notification that carriages took up and set down for his costume Ball, according to certain regulations. (10)
• About the beginning of the nineteenth century according to my archæthermograph, the summers began to grow shorter and hotter, the winters longer and colder. (7)
• Nevertheless, he hung aloft, feeding where he could, impatient of the solitudes, till night, when, according to his guess, the ladies were at their robing. (10)
• Certain species of woods are, therefore, selected for particular parts of the house according to the needs of durability, strength, appearance, and local supply. (17)
• These two had become very friendly, according to her hopes; and Miss Paynham was extremely solicitous to draw suggestions from Mr. Redworth and win his approval. (10)
• He was no doubt a rackety, irresponsible young fellow according to old standards, yet somehow likeable, with his extraordinarily cheerful way of blurting out his opinions. (8)
• No voice was more important than another, all progressed according to canonic law, their complex intertwining practically destroying the essentially secular elements of accent and rhythm. (3)

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