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... house that had 'taken' wonderfully; but this was no impediment to his arranging it according to a plan of his own. It was a great dingy house with a quantity of dim side window and blank back premises, and it cost his mind a world of trouble so to lay it out as to account for everything in its external appearance. But, this once done, was quite satisfactory, and he rested persuaded, that he knew his way about the house blindfold: from the barred garrets in the high roof, to the two iron extinguishers before the main door—which seemed to request all lively ...

— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens

... account for representing "the Goodwin affair" as having had "a very important relation to the Salem troubles," and attempts to controvert ...

— Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather - A Reply • Charles W. Upham

... father. "God knows if I have done right," she said, "but I am doing what you have taken me to account for not doing." ...

— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

... and in the best order; and a weary day was that to the chambermaid in which her lynx eye discovered any neglect of the strict cleanliness which she constantly enforced. Indeed, considering Meg's country and calling, we were never able to account for her extreme and scrupulous nicety, unless by supposing that it afforded her the most apt and frequent pretext for scolding her maids; an exercise in which she displayed so much eloquence and energy, that we must needs believe it to have ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... is as abundant "as the dust," and which he needs for his buildings at home. He tells the Egyptian king how his father Kuri-galzu had refused to listen to the Canaanites when they had offered to betray their country to him, and he calls Khu-n-Aten to account for treating the Assyrians as an independent nation and not ...

— Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations • Archibald Sayce

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