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present copies say presently sect
But then what Josephus's present copies say presently, sect.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

prerequisite contingency stipulation provision specification
condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non[Lat]; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount &c. 813; restriction; fine print.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

populares common sayings proverbial sayings
[41] dichos populares, common sayings; proverbial sayings .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

people cast soft pantomime stones
And they shall stone him and defile him, yea, all from Agendath Netaim and from Mizraim, the land of Ham. (All the people cast soft pantomime stones at Bloom.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

PP C2 slee PP S3
Sleen , v. to slay, PP, C2; slee , PP, S3, W, G; sle , S, S3, PP; slen , PP; slean , S; slæn , S; slon , S; slo , S; sla , S2; sleað , pr. s. , S; sleth , S3; sleeth , C; sleað , pl. , S; slaȝeð , S; slage , S; sloh , pt. s. , S; sloȝ , S; slou , S, S2; slow , S2, S3; slowe , W; slouh , S2; slouȝ , S2; slough , S3, C; sloghen , pl. , S; sloȝen , S; slowe , S2; slowen , W; sloȝe , S; slogh , S2; sloughe , S3; slo , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

PP C sotel PP sutelle
; sotyl , PP; sotil , PP, C; sotel , PP; sutelle , Cath.; sutaille , S3; sotely , adv. , PP; suteli , W.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

peas corn sweet potatoes sheep
_#_GDP: $23 million, per capita $3,300; real growth rate 8.2% (1988 est.) _#_Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.5% (1988 est.) _#_Unemployment rate: 5.0% (1988 est.) _#_Budget: revenues $10.4 million; expenditures $11.0 million, including capital expenditures of $1.1 million (1989 est.) _#_Exports: $NA; commodities—lobster and salt; partners—NA _#_Imports: $NA; commodities—NA; partners —NA _#_External debt: $NA _#_Industrial production: growth rate NA% _#_Electricity: 2,000 kW capacity; 6 million kWh produced, 870 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: tourism, boat building, salt, fishing (including lobster) _#_Agriculture: pigeon peas, corn, sweet potatoes, sheep, goats, pigs, cattle, poultry _#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $38 million _#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural—dollars); 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents _#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1—2.70 (fixed rate since 1976) _#_Fiscal year: NA _*
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Purificatory ceremonies Sacred places Sacrifice
See Asylums , Atheism , Baptism , Blasphemy , Blood (effusion of, as a religious rite), Eucharist , Flagellation , Future life , Future state , “God,” Goddesses , Gods , Guardian spirits, Hell , Heresy , Holiness , Human sacrifice, Intolerance , Monotheism , Oaths , Ordeals , Penance , Perjury , Pilgrimage , Polytheism , Prayer , Priestesses , Priests , Purificatory ceremonies, Sacred places, Sacrifice , Sacrilege , Saints , Self-mortification , Self-mutilation (as a religious rite), Sin , Supreme beings, Tolerance , Totem , Totemism , Unbelief Remorse , i. 105 –107, 123 –125, 136 ; absence of, in criminals, i. 90 n. 1 ; a cause of suicide, i. 106 , ii.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

piratical copies such prohibition shall
That during the existence of the American copyright in any book the importation into the United States of any piratical copies thereof or of any copies thereof (although authorized by the author or proprietor) which have not been produced in accordance with the manufacturing provisions specified in section fifteen of this Act, or any plates of the same not made from type set within the limits of the United States, or any copies thereof produced by lithographic or photo-engraving process not performed within the limits of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of section fifteen of this Act, shall be, and is hereby, prohibited: Provided, however , That, except as regards piratical copies, such prohibition shall not apply: "(a) To works in raised characters for the use of the blind; "(b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine, although containing matter copyrighted in the United States printed or reprinted by authority of the copyright proprietor, unless such newspaper or magazine contains also copyright matter printed or reprinted without such authorization; [Pg 281] "(c) To the authorized edition of a book in a foreign language or languages of which only a translation into English has been copyrighted in this country; "(d) To any book published abroad with the authorization of the author or copyright proprietor when imported under the circumstances stated in one of the four subdivisions following, that is to say: "First.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker


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