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Plates LIV and XX
The Dobuans, during their stay in Sinaketa, lived on the beach or in their canoes (see Plates LIV and XX ).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

pl leather aprons XV
Barm-fellys , n. pl. leather aprons, XV h 11.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

Prof Luick Anglia xi
195–212, and by Prof. Luick, Anglia , xi, pp.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

Psal lxxiii and xciv
It is true, often his own people stumble in it, as David, Psal. lxxiii, and xciv.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

present limited and xxiii
"We have our choice of these two things—to continue our present limited and [xxiii] disadvantageous commerce—or to promote manufactures among ourselves, with a habit of economy, and thereby remove the necessity we are now under of being supplied by Great Britain .
— from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies by John Dickinson

priests Léonor and Xavier
Four young priests, Léonor and Xavier de Tournély, Pierre Charles Leblanc, and Charles de Broglie, had formed a society under the name of the Sacred Heart, intended as a nucleus for the re-establishment of the Society of Jesus.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

public library at X
These examinations, or rather, my necessity to work and prepare for them, coupled with the presence of a fine public library at X——, gave me the pretext I needed to stay behind during the family villegiatura.
— from The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Pélicier libraire an XII
A Paris, chez Pichard, libraire, Pélicier, libraire, an XII— 1804. 8 vo.
— from Choffard by Vera Salomons

personal labour Acts xx
If the history make the apostle, in his speech to the Ephesian elders, remind them, as one proof of the disinterestedness of his views, that, to their knowledge, he had supplied his own and the necessities of his companions by personal labour; (Acts xx.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

purchased lands and xx
It hence appears that Sir Anthony had no less than three farms , one at Castleton in the Peak, one at Caldon in Staffordshire, near Dove Dale, and a farm which he held of the King; besides the How Grange and some land at Whittington near Lichfield, as also some purchased lands and [xx] tenements in the counties of Stafford, Northampton, and Warwick, mentioned in a part of the will which I have not quoted.
— from The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert


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