It was once one of the four great cities of Khorasan, rivalling Rai (Rhages), "the mother of cities," in importance and population, but is now a small and comparatively unimportant place with a population of barely 15,000. [Please select]
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It is the _Agrion virgo_, the most splendid of all the dragon-flies, even rivalling the gorgeously coloured insects of tropical countries. [Please select]
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It has a handsome and dignified appearance, rivalling that of _Oryctes nasicornis_. [Please select]
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He was a witty, intelligent, well-read man, rivalling Captain Jim himself in the knack of telling a good story. [Please select]
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When people looked at his head they felt he ought to have been a giant, but he was far from rivalling the children of Anak. [Please select]
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Before he begins to feast, the Glow-worm administers an anæsthetic: he chloroforms his victim, rivalling in the process the wonders of our modern surgery, which renders the patient insensible before operating on him. [Please select]
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