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establishing new friendships or renewing the
After I recovered, I continued in the campaign of 1809, taking part in other battles, becoming acquainted with new people, and establishing new friendships, or renewing the old.
— from Saragossa: A Story of Spanish Valor by Benito Pérez Galdós

events not fire on rioters till
The belief was general that the soldiers might not act at all, or, at all events, not fire on rioters, till an hour after the Riot Act had been read and the mob had been warned to disperse; and no magistrate could be found to brave its fury by reading it.
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

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