Example Sentences

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While the sergeant had been eliciting these particulars, and writing an account of the affair, his men had searched the house from top to bottom, and reported absolute emptiness.

From '?19,000' by Delannoy, Burford

In all probability it was this had been eliciting my sister’s laughter.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne