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de country a piece en sell
You take me up de country a piece, en sell me on a farm; dem people ain’t gwyne to ask no questions if I’s a bargain.”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

del Cabildo acometidos por el Sur
Cedieron primero los de la Catedral; los del Cabildo, acometidos por el Sur y por el Norte, se
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

de causa a praeside et senatu
Pupillus neque a tutore rejiciatur, neque tutorem suum ubi velit mutet nisi legitima de causa a praeside et senatu probanda; qui fecerit collegio excludatur....
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

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