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Year after year, so long as he resided on the premises, he counted upon and gathered several specimens of the puff-ball, the mycelium continuing to produce them year after year.

So, at least I thought: but I had not counted upon the extent of the dungeon, or upon my own weakness.

In the 1980s, Democrats could be counted upon to argue that Republican presidents needed congressional authorization for military action.

On Crossfire , Buchanan could always be counted upon to defend the educational advantages of a good lashing, whether in Singapore or Chevy Chase.

Oh, unhappy the writer who publishes the truth otherwise than as a performance of a duty! If he has counted upon the applause of the crowd, if he has supposed that avarice and self-interest would forget themselves in admiration of him, if he has neglected to encase himself within three thicknesses of brass,-he will fail, as he ought, in his selfish undertaking.

Unfortunately this salutary effect is by no means to be counted upon: it is a much more difficult thing to raise, than to lower, the scale of living which the laborers will consider as more indispensable than marrying and having a family.

He may be counted upon to do successfully anything that he is willing to undertake.

Fogg that they would reach Shanghai in time; to which that gentleman responded that he counted upon it.

From these rovers, however, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour Cedric and Athelstane accounted themselves secure, as they had in attendance ten servants, besides Wamba and Gurth, whose aid could not be counted upon, the one being a jester and the other a captive.

Suppose the savages were to overrun the island, and find my mother, my little brother, and sister, defenceless, at the time we were obliged to retreat from our house; how dreadful that would be!” “But I counted upon retreating to the tents.” “So we can all together, unless we are surprised in the night.” “That we must take care not to be.

I was much disappointed, for I had counted upon seeing some persons who were to see you-and upon your seeing some who had seen me.

Unfortunately this salutary effect is by no means to be counted upon: it is a much more difficult thing to raise, than to lower, the scale of living which the laborers will consider as more indispensable than marrying and having a family.

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