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Recently, also, substantial progress has been made in restricting working hours for children. As long ago as 1866 Massachusetts had restricted the employment of children, but neither this law nor similar laws passed by other states had been fully enforced.
Beyond the town was Colway House, a substantial mansion, once the residence of the Cobham family; and about a mile from it, on the opposite side of the valley, was a collection of buildings known as Hayes Farm, both of which had been fortified, and occupied as outposts.
It also appears that the sale of the public lands is largely on the increase. It has long been a cherished opinion of some of our wisest statesmen that the people of the United States had a higher and more enduring interest in the early settlement and substantial cultivation of the public lands than in the amount of direct revenue to be derived from the sale of them.
It would almost seem as if the maximum and minimum dates within each term were granted specifically for the purpose of yielding an enormous income to the police, which, for a substantial consideration, could postpone the expulsion of the victims for three months and thereby enable them to wind up their affairs.
His work was well done! So well done that he was justified, perhaps, in making another substantial increase in his stated weekly "terms." That night when the farewell meeting was over, and the last "good-bye" and "God bless you" had been said to the evangelist, Dan stood alone in his study, by the window that looked out upon Denny's garden. He was very tired.
McKibben, almost smitten, was most attentive. "This is such a pleasure," he whispered, intimately. "You are very beautiful a dream!" "You would find me a very substantial one," returned Aileen. "Would that I might find," he laughed, gaily; and Aileen, gathering the hidden significance, showed her teeth teasingly. Mrs. Simms, engrossed by Cowperwood, could not hear as she would have liked.
Pierce's minister in general and citizen Peabody being no less great in diplomacy, which he illustrated in the most substantial manner it became necessary to make a demonstration: to this end did friend George delegate his hospitality in an invitation to dine with him at Blackwall.
He stopped short, and addressed the air above the piano with passionate conviction. "I stay because, thanks to my wife, I've savored here fourteen years of more complete reconciliation with life I've been vouchsafed more usefulness I've discovered more substantial reasons for existing than I ever dreamed possible in the old life than any one in that world can conceive!"
A mere fifty pounds! Why, the thing is unpardonable! In my case the sum was substantial enough to justify me in retaining it for your future benefit. But to owe fifty pounds, and shirk payment no, I call that really disgraceful. If ever I meet Alexander !" Piers was coldly amused.
So he hurriedly and quietly withdrew into the outer darkness. Fred Munson felt that he had been extremely fortunate, not only in securing a good, substantial supper, but in getting a rifle. With it he could guard against danger and starvation.
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