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by or return report or record
(f) Penalties.--Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or of any department or agency thereof, knowingly publishes, divulges, discloses, or makes known in any manner or to any extent not authorized by law, any critical infrastructure information protected from disclosure by this subtitle coming to him in the course of this employment or official duties or by reason of any examination or investigation made by, or return, report, or record made to or filed with, such department or agency or officer or employee thereof, shall be fined under title 18 of the United States Code, imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both, and shall be removed from office or employment.
— from Homeland Security Act of 2002 Updated Through October 14, 2008 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security

Beshir O R R O R
O Mo. b g or pc R O Genghis A R F b. g or r A Fb, r or g R Karabagh A A A Fr or b R Kazak A A A Rr or b or b R TURKOMAN Khiva A R F Rd R F Rg or Beshir O R R O R O
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

bosom of religion reflection on religion
But when religion advances in years, and, with years, in understanding; when, within the bosom of religion, reflection on religion is awakened, and the consciousness of the identity of the divine being with the human begins to dawn,—in a word, when religion becomes theology, the originally involuntary and harmless separation of God from man becomes an intentional, excogitated separation, which has no other object than to banish again from the consciousness this identity which has already entered there.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

Board of Revenue Reports of Revenue
(Trevor Plowden, Esq., to Board of Revenue, Reports of Revenue Settlement, N. W.P., vol.
— from The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan by H. G. (Henry George) Keene

but one real refuge one region
[190] CHAPTER VII LIFE OF THE COLORED REFUGEES IN CANADA The passengers of the Underground Railroad had but one real refuge, one region alone within whose bounds they could know they were safe from reënslavement; that region was Canada.
— from The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom: A comprehensive history by Wilbur Henry Siebert

B o rríre rísc o rít
B o rríre, rísc o , rít o , to stuffe or quilt.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

but only relative rights only rights
We must not attempt to study absolute, but only relative rights, only rights based on certain premises, and only this can be the moral problem of reason.
— from The Positive Outcome of Philosophy The Nature of Human Brain Work. Letters on Logic. by Joseph Dietzgen

but one red reef of rock
A sea that heaves with horror of the night, As maddened by the moon that hangs aghast With strain and torment of the ravening blast, Haggard as hell, a bleak blind bloody light; No shore but one red reef of rock in sight, Whereon the waifs of many a wreck were cast And shattered in the fierce nights overpast Wherein more souls toward hell than heaven took flight; And 'twixt the shark‑toothed rocks and swallowing shoals A cry as out of hell from all these souls Sent through the sheer gorge of the slaughtering sea, Whose thousand throats, full‑fed with life by death, Fill the black air with foam and furious breath; And over all these one star—Chastity.
— from Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III by Algernon Charles Swinburne

bouquets of roses roses overhead roses
There were garlands of roses, festoons of roses, bouquets of roses; roses overhead, roses under foot, everywhere roses.
— from Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell


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