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chairs a dinner consisting of roast pork
A table was placed in the centre of the room, and soon after we had taken our seats (we were luckily accommodated with chairs), a dinner, consisting of roast pork, roast ducks and fowls, and a pilaw, were brought in.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

cut and dry code of rules prescribed
Christian Ethics, though deduced from scripture, is not a cut and dry code of rules prescribed by God which man must blindly obey.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

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