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little expense and no newspaper
The eternal critics of the rich used the case as another text in proof of the complete control that wealth has over our courts, though seventy-five divorces to obscure persons were granted at the same time without difficulty, with little expense and no newspaper punishment.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Lubois erected at Natchez near
Both historians unite in stating that after their retreat to the West of the Mississippi, Lubois erected at Natchez near the brow of the bluffs, the terraced Fort Rosalie,—the remains of which were plainly visible when Monette wrote, but which, when Claiborne's history was written, had been largely effaced by the great landslide.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society

last explained and need not
The mode of conducting the process and obtaining the results is precisely the same as in that last explained, and need not, therefore, be repeated.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

loud enough and now near
I suppose them to be French; and see that they are coming after you," " After us!" exclaimed the English captain, in a voice loud enough, and now near enough, to be heard without the aid of the trumpet. "
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

logical end are not nice
But the tendency has been towards increasing specialization, and the last results of specialization, if carried to its logical end, are not nice to forecast.
— from International Finance by Hartley Withers

less extent and not necessarily
And I think we might reasonably hope that such arbitrators, if carefully selected and if entitled to the confidence of the parties to be affected, would be voluntarily called to the settlement of controversies of less extent and not necessarily within the domain of Federal regulation.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents


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