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Kent Road is eminently respectable
IN THE OLD KENT ROAD I have said that the Old Kent Road is eminently respectable; and so it is.
— from The Dover Road: Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

kept ready in every respect
The cable must be kept ready in every respect for slipping, with a stopper forward of the bits, and even unshackled, if the weather will permit, with a steady man stationed to slip or cut as may be requisite.
— from Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance

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