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and Elisha Gordon Esquires requiring
A Certiorari issued out of this Court, directed to Joshua Jones and Elisha Gordon, Esquires, requiring them to transmit certain proceedings had before them under the fence law of 1700, in which John T. Townshend and Israel Walton, Overseers of the poor of Byberry are the complainants, and F. I. the defendant.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 03 (1820) by Various

a en garde et reffaire
Of interest on this point is an Order of the Court of the Duchy of Anjou, dated September 18, 1477, in which the people of the Duchy were required to pay twelve livres to the keeper of King Réné's castle at Baugé "pour la nourriture des ouyseaux et nestoyer les espèces qu'il a en garde ... et reffaire le Dédalus qui est és jardrins dudit lieu de Baugé."
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews

an empty garden empty rooms
Long winters, long evenings, an empty garden, empty rooms, the grumbling Count, the ailing wife....
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

atmosphere ever giving ever receiving
The ocean lungs pulse a gigantic breath at every tide, her continental limbs vibrate with light and electricity, her Cyclopean fires burn within, and her atmosphere, ever giving, ever receiving, subserves the stupendous equilibrium, and betrays the universal motion.
— from The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

agreements Ethnic groups Exchange rates
Economic aid - recipient Economy - overview Electricity - consumption Electricity - exports Electricity - imports Electricity - production Electricity - production by source Elevation extremes Environment - current issues Environment - international agreements Ethnic groups Exchange rates Executive branch Exports Exports - commodities Exports - partners
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

advertising establishments gilt edges resplendent
Short stories, slender poems, steel engravings, on a level with the common fashion-plates of advertising establishments, gilt edges, resplendent binding,—to manifestations of this sort our lighter literature had very largely run for some years.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes


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