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Pegu Yomas run along the eastern
The hills known as the Pegu Yomas run along the eastern boundary dividing Magwè from Pyinmana for about sixty or seventy miles; from the Thayetmyo boundary on the south, to some distance beyond Natmauk on the north.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

perhaps you remember and this eligible
He and a queer wine merchant and bill discounter, Sherrick by name, had somehow got possession of that neat little literary paper, The Museum , which perhaps you remember, and this eligible literary property my friend Honeyman, with his wheedling tongue, induced me to purchase."
— from Thackeray by Anthony Trollope

protect your retreat as the Emperor
On these conditions I have it in commission to go to our outposts, and give them orders to protect your retreat, as the Emperor is desirous to protect the friend of the First Consul.’
— from Memoirs of the Empress Josephine, Vol. 1 of 2 by Madame de (Claire Elisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes) Rémusat

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