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remove abstract subtract prevent exclude debar
ANT: Export, remove, abstract, subtract, prevent, exclude, debar, transport.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

round and smoking poached egg done
George Freyne's hungry resentment was not appeased by the appearance of a round and smoking poached egg done for his stepdaughter, accompanied by toasted ham.
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

reading a short passage every day
In the first place the pronunciation should be learnt by reading a short passage every day with a French master, and the verbs most commonly in use committed to memory.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

room ashore so perfectly evenly did
When they had gone to sleep it seemed as if they were sleeping in a room ashore, so perfectly evenly did the ship rush ahead through the night; but now every portion of her frame seemed to be complaining in its own particular voice, and she groaned and strained like a ship in a storm.
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap


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