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...pair of black calf shoes such as you never saw before, latest style and warranted...
...pair of black calf, Tan, Enamel or Patent Shoe (such as would cost elsewhere $7.00). Our own special last. Very fine goods...
...various systems of muscles of the human body,- the systems on the back: the head and shoulders, the thigh, and the calf muscles-those in front: the foot, the shin, thigh, abdomen and chest,- and the functions of these systems and their methods of action together with the best means of exercising them, were then shown by means of the three models...
Bishop Hall of Vermont preached last night at Appleton Chapel from the text "and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had the face of a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle," taken from Revelation. All the Revelation of St. John, he said, must not be taken as a literal description of heaven. It is an allegory, and all through the Bible we find...
...necessity and consumption would naturally be those in which the alien would triumph over the native nomenclature. In the third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when...