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ego vixero Iuxta crucem tecum stare
Fac me vere tecum flere, Crucifixo condolere, Donec ego vixero; Iuxta crucem tecum stare, Te libenter sociare In planctu desidero.
— from The Medieval Latin Hymn by Ruth Ellis Messenger

every villain is compelled to slink
[Pg 28] encouraged to this course of rascality by the belief that the Department had no officials whose particular business it was to be "a terror to evil-doers," and that he could easily elude the efforts of those no more experienced than himself in the crooks and turns through which every villain is compelled to slink.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

every vessel it could to strengthen
In the first year of the war, only about one in eleven of these runners were caught (partly because sidewheelers were still faster than screw steamers), and the Union Navy continued to build, borrow, and buy every vessel it could to strengthen the blockade.
— from Charlestown Navy Yard: Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts by United States. National Park Service


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