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...In i870, the kingdom of hawaii faced a challenge: as a result of often poor surveying during the mahele process in the 1840s and 1850s, land records were chaotic. Uncertainty over boundaries and land ownership was a major hindrance to real estate sales, taxes, and the development of the kingdoms econ...

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... when they sat at the kitchen table at last. “I can tell,” Morgan nodded, surveying the devastation that surrounded them. But the fritters were c...

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... a Johnny Walker Black on the rocks, while Pierce stood looking out the window, surveying his domain. "That's all we need," Cox said, waving his ha...

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...- ing mail in his hat. All this could not lift him from pov- erty, and his surveying instruments and horse and saddle were sold by the sheriff for deb... ...her unsuccessful attempt at store-keeping was fol- lowed by better luck at surveying, until his horse and in- struments were levied upon under executi...

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...ams had ended his speech. A while he rolled his eyes in silence; sometimes surveying Adams, then his wife; then casting them on the ground, then lifti... ...easiness she suffered, and immediately removed his eyes from an object, in surveying which he had felt the greatest delight which the organs of sight ...

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...sufficient to meet the expenses of the General Land Office and the cost of surveying and bringing the land into market.” The discrepancy between the s...

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...on Agamemnon;” or, again, according to the circumstances: “But him sternly surveying saluted the swift-footed Achilles;” “T on d’ar’, upodra idon, pro... ...Suddenly , the Count St. Aldenheim, who was standing with arms folded, and surveying the brilliant scene, felt some one touch his hand, in the way con...

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...he common attributes of a variety of objects, it is necessary to begin, by surveying the objects themselves in the concrete. Let us therefore advert s...

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...e, sir.’ ‘Oh! Y ou are the young lady, are you?’ said the dancing- master, surveying the small figure and uplifted face. ‘Y es, sir.’ ‘And what can I ... ...e, ever since. Is it true?’ ‘Quite true, till last night.’ ‘Lord!’ But his surveying her with an admiring gaze suggested Something else to him, to wit... ... him for his Paris purchases, and, after opening their cases and carefully surveying them, to put them away under lock and key. After that, what with ... ...d looked at John. ‘He says What! And what is more,’ exclaimed Y oung John, surveying him in a doleful maze, ‘he appears to mean it! Do you see this wi... ...iples! It’s a mighty fine sign-post, is The Casby’s Head,’ said Mr Pancks, surveying it with any- thing rather than admiration; ‘but the real name of ...

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...e, sir.’ ‘Oh! Y ou are the young lady, are you?’ said the dancing- master, surveying the small figure and uplifted face. ‘Y es, sir.’ ‘And what can I ... ...e, ever since. Is it true?’ ‘Quite true, till last night.’ ‘Lord!’ But his surveying her with an admiring gaze suggested Something else to him, to wit...

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...ence, slightly bowed to the ladies, without speaking a word, and, after briefly surveying them and their apartments, took up a newspaper from the table...

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...pon the line, and have no gardens to relieve them. A foreigner, when first surveying such a spot, will certainly record within himself a verdict again...

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...y and the theory of projectiles, or between the rules of mathematical land-surveying and the science of trigonometry. The definition, though not liabl...

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...ally been at work is, perhaps, to be judged best by an observant stroller, surveying the crowds of a Sunday evening in New York, or read in the sheets...

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...company makes work a pleasure—don’t hurry it, boys.’ He stood on the truck surveying the world. That was one of his great and absorbing occupations: t...

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...a planted Garden. I descended a little on the Side of that delicious Vale, surveying it with a secret Kind of Pleasure, (tho’ mixt with my other afflic...

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...o write after be was of age, carri’d the chain for surveyors, who taught him surveying, and he had now by his industry, acquir’d a good estate; and sa...

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...is farm to dig, and for the matter of six weeks in the summer he worked at surveying, carpentry, or some other of his numerous dexterities, for hire. ...