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driving out or getting in either
When this happens, he should consider the best mode of rectifying the accident, by driving out or getting in, either above the error or below it.
— from The American Printer: A Manual of Typography Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc. by Thomas MacKellar

done out of Greek into English
The Tablet of Cebes ... or a true emblem of human life; done out of Greek into English.
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

depositer of One Guinea is entitled
Whilst on the top of the engraving is inscribed, ‘This is to give information for the benefit of all Jacobin Adventurers, that Policies are now open’d at Lloyd’s—where the depositer of One Guinea is entitled to a Hundred if the Corsican Cut throat is alive 48 Hours after Landing on the British Coast.’
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 1 (of 2) by John Ashton

descriptive of old gravestones in existence
I have searched the Museum libraries, and consulted book-collectors, well-read archaeologists, and others likely to know if there is any work [pg 36] descriptive of old gravestones in existence, and nothing with the remotest relation thereto can I discover.
— from In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious by W. T. (William Thomas) Vincent


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