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CENTRES ADVISABLE THOUGH NOT ESSENTIAL PART
MAINTENANCE GROUPS ISOLATED CENTRES ADVISABLE THOUGH NOT ESSENTIAL PART PLAN.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

carry away the newly enlisted peasants
Meanwhile the Hussars arrive, to carry away the newly enlisted peasants.
— from The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

cooking and the new earthen pots
After the meal, all the remaining food and the water including that used for cooking, and the new earthen pots used to carry water on that day are thrown into the pit.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

council as the newly elected parliament
"I can have no doubt," Grey wrote to Elgin on February 22nd, "that you must accept { 200} such a council as the newly elected parliament will support, and that however unwise as relates to the real interests of Canada their measures may be, they must be acquiesced in, until it shall pretty clearly appear that public opinion will support a resistance to them.
— from British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison

cavalier and the New England Puritan
It was the combined qualities of the Virginia cavalier and the New England Puritan that made Stonewall Jackson invincible and Robert E. Lee the highest type of the American patriot.
— from The Southern Soldier Boy: A Thousand Shots for the Confederacy by James Carson Elliott

concupiscentia as the new editor points
[226] In the original lecture on the Epistle to the Romans he has, it is true, added to the text, after the word “ peccatum ,” the word “ concupiscentia ,” as the new editor points out, in excuse of Luther.
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

came about that nearly every penny
So it came about that nearly every penny of my dividends has been reinvested during the last twenty years, and to-day I'm worth . . .
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

circulation and thereby nourishes every part
It quickens the circulation, and thereby nourishes every part of the body, causing the bones to become firm, and the muscles to become full and healthy.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp


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