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roads and steep hills in Devon and
The road was more hilly than any we had passed over heretofore, not a few of the grades being styled "dangerous," and we had been warned by an English friend that we should find difficult roads and steep hills in Devon and Cornwall.
— from British Highways and Byways from a Motor Car Being a Record of a Five Thousand Mile Tour in England, Wales and Scotland by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

run and see he is doing as
I must run and see he is doing as I told him.
— from How the Garden Grew by Maud Maryon

ready and steddy hand in describing and
This is a corollary of the former, of the Reason or rate of a Parallelogramme with a Triangulate; and it needeth no Page 146 [146] farther demonstration; but a ready and steddy hand in describing and working of it.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

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