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... who was young and handsome, and that on the day when the repudiation took place and the bridal was celebrated he was journeying along the road, and perceived a company feasting and revelling beneath some trees in a plain within the jurisdiction of the village of Deleitosa, and that on demanding the cause he was told that it was on account of Simon Ramirez marrying one Gitana and casting off another; and that the repudiated woman told him, with an agony of tears, that he abandoned her because she was ...

— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow

... England the tract of country included within the jurisdiction of a town, is divided into districts for the establishment and support of schools. These districts are called school-districts, and each one is generally named from some of the principal families that happen to live in it. It happened that ...

— Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont • Jacob Abbott

... others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their acts ...

— Key-Notes of American Liberty • Various

... here, I am going back to the Mill Farm. I have known since yesterday that something was wrong, but I am glad I came back last evening to learn how wrong. There is no question of staying now, because no good could come of our attempting to talk. My thoughts are my own; no one else can have jurisdiction over them. I cannot think of one act of mine as your guest which you could disapprove. Therefore there is nothing to discuss; but the grief it is to me to have offended you, you will never know. You can tell the others that ...

— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham

... with a slight smile, "that the cleaning-up of haunted houses came within the jurisdiction of Scotland ...

— The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer

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