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Borneo loses its venom Everything that
And the poison-tree of Borneo loses its venom, Everything that is venomous loses its venom, By virtue of my use of the Prayer of the Magic Bezoar-Stone .”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

brave leader in vain endeavoured to
The dragoons had already been dispirited by a reverse at Lisnaskea; and a word of command [538] which was given incorrectly, threw the old corps into confusion, from which their brave leader in vain endeavoured to rally them.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack

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