"Cl" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... half o' my own quarter section, and he took it. He's puttin' up a mill thar, and that's another reason why we want peace and quietness up thar. I'm tryin' (betwixt and between us, Mr. Brice) to get Harry to cl'ar out and sell his rights in the valley and the water power on the Fork to Heckshill and me. I'm opening ...
— From Sand Hill to Pine • Bret Harte
... the author's "high-low" method of esophagoscopy, fourth stage. Passing the hiatus. The head is dropped from the position of the 1st and 2nd stages, CL, to the position T, and at the same time the head and shoulders are moved to the right (without rotation) which gives the necessary direction ...
— Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy - A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery • Chevalier Jackson
... By golly, there was a fellow up in the Big Woods that came from St. Cl—St. Cloud? Yes, that was it. He was telling us about the town. I remember he said your brother had ...
— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis
... Cl denote a kind of adhesion or tenacity, as in cleave, clay, cling, climb, clamber, clammy, clasp, to clasp, to clip, to clinch, cloak, clog, close, to close, a clod, a clot, as a clot of blood, clouted cream, ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson
... to carry on foreign commerce with the United States. * * * It is true that the taxing power is a distinct power; that it is distinct from the power to regulate commerce. * * * It is also true that the taxing power embraces the power to lay duties. Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 1. But because the taxing power is a distinct power and embraces the power to lay duties, it does not follow that duties may not be imposed in the exercise of the power to regulate commerce. The contrary is well established. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 202. 'Under the power to ...
— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin
... he praised admiringly. "Wall, there'll be no more fracas to-night. Anyhow, the boys'll be on guard ag'in it; they're out now. You two can eat and rest a bit, whilst gettin' good and ready; and if you set out 'fore moon-up you can easy get cl'ar, with what help we give you. We'll furnish mounts, grub, anything you need. ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... thonne gebyrige, tht for neode heora hwilc with ure bige habban wille, oththe we with heora, mid yrfe and mid htum, tht is to thafianne on tha wisan, tht man gislas sylle frithe to wedde, and to swutelunge, tht man wite tht man clne bc hbbe. ...
— Anglo-Saxon Literature • John Earle
... able to follow them with certainty in dissection; they are all displayed in the Figure; but it must not be imagined for a moment that familiarity with this diagram will obviate the necessity for the practical work; (in.) is the innominate artery; it forks into (s.cl.a.) the right subclavian, and (r.c.c.) the right common carotid. Each carotid splits at the angle of the jaw into an internal and an external branch. The left common carotid, (l.c.c.) arises from the base ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... historic document, signed by the President of the French Republic, M. Poincar, the French Premier, M. Clmenceau, and the Foreign Secretary, M. Pichon, and dated December 19, 1917, reads ...
— Independent Bohemia • Vladimir Nosek
... mus' cl'ar up yo' litter here. Don't leave it on mammy's nice flo'. Hit's mighty nigh supper-time. Cl'ar up now, ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... ancestor of a Jerusalem family which flourished till after the exile. Older traits in 1Samuel xx. are the importance attached to the new moon, the family sacrifice at Bethlehem, perhaps the stone )BN )CL which appears to have implied something inconsistent with later orthodoxy, the name being in two passages so singularly ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen
... clear that the Jewish feasts always occurred when they fell on the Sabbath of the Lord. Lev. xxiii: 37, last cl. ...
— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates |
