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See Care and preservation Errors staying
See " Care and preservation " Errors staying execution of movement, for correction of 63 ; 64 ESCORTS OF: Funeral 640 –645
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Square circular and polygonal enclosures single
Square, circular, and polygonal enclosures, single and in groups, parallels, ditches, and mounds, occupy every available terrace along the banks of the Scioto River, and its tributary Paint Creek.
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

simple construction and performing excellent service
1. A filter of simple construction, and performing excellent service, is shown in Fig.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

same career and probably each saw
Jos. Larkin had each projected for himself, pretty much the same career; and probably each saw glimmering in the horizon the golden round of a coronet.
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

sufficiently competently adequately proportionally equally so
Of equality or sufficiency; as, Enough, sufficiently, competently, adequately, proportionally, equally, so, as, even, just, exactly, precisely .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

social control and perhaps even social
These topics will serve to clinch the earlier discussions and to crystallize a few ideas on social control and perhaps even social progress.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper


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