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Greeks and us range ev
Let heralds summon now The brazen-coated Greeks, and us range ev'rywhere the host, To stir a strong war quickly up."
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

grants available used research equipment
Daily information updates are made on federal education and research programs, scholarships, fellowships, and grants, available used research equipment, and general information about FEDIX itself.
— from Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe

good and unfailing resources except
The weather, the newspaper, the last accident, the little dog, the bric- -brac, the love of horses, etc., are good and unfailing resources, except that very few people have the readiness to remember this wealth of subjects at once.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood

generation an upright rock expressing
Select forms also, as the cleft of a tree, are chosen to represent materially— oculis subjecta fidelibus —the passive power of generation, an upright rock expressing the active.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

give an unquestionable Right except
THAT seven Years quiet Possession shall give an unquestionable Right, except in Cases of Infants, Lunaticks, married Women, or Persons beyond the Seas.
— from Papers Relating to an Act of the Assembly of the Province of New-York For encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada by Cadwallader Colden


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