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great emeralds Rubies I know
The father ceded Naples, that the son Being a King, might wed a Queen—O he Flamed in brocade—white satin his trunk-hose, Inwrought with silver,—on his neck a collar, Gold, thick with diamonds; hanging down from this The Golden Fleece—and round his knee, misplaced, Our English Garter, studded with great emeralds, Rubies, I know not what.
— from Queen Mary; and, Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

greatest extent revenues in kind
Yet at their greatest extent revenues ‘in kind’ could do little more than satisfy the daily needs of the palace.
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

general ethnical relations I know
[Pg 181] But beyond these partial movements, without any kind of influence on the general ethnical relations, I know of no Hindu (some have even used the term "Aryan," and have brought Aryans to Camboja) invasions except those of a moral order—the invasions of the zealous Hindu missionaries, both Brahman and Buddhist, which, however, amply suffice to account for all the above indicated points of contact between the Indian, the Indo-Chinese, and the Malayan populations.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane


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