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give Ah why am I not stricken
None have I now who might to me a drop of water give: Ah! why am I not stricken too; for wherefore should I live?"
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Greece and Western Asia is not so
It must be admitted that the suggested resemblance between the early ceramics of Northern Greece and Western Asia is not so striking as that between the separate members of the latter group.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

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