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construction and procured several in different stages
He observed, moreover, the whole process of their construction, and procured several in different stages of completion.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

course are peculiarly skilled in detecting such
The blacks, of course, are peculiarly skilled in detecting such marks.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

colony and partially succeeded in doing so
Zachary Macaulay stayed for a year after the attack, heroically trying to rehabilitate the little colony, and partially succeeded in doing so, when, his health failing, he returned to England, where he gave almost the entire remaining years of his life to the work of negro emancipation in one form or another.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold

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