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strapades et des gibbets en
Et à tous les coins il y a des chaisnes rompues, des menottes brisées, des strapades et des gibbets en pièces, et par-dessus en grosses lettres ce sont ces paroles de la deuxième
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

shoemakers engineers dentists gunsmiths editors
As showing the representative character of the delegates, the diversity of occupations, employment and the professions followed, the fact was developed that there were printers, carpenters, blacksmiths, shoemakers, engineers, dentists, gunsmiths, editors, tailors, merchants, wheelwrights, painters, farmers, physicians, plasterers, masons, college students, clergymen, barbers, hairdressers, laborers, coopers, livery stable keepers, bath house keepers and grocers among the members of the convention.
— from The Early Negro Convention Movement The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 9 by John Wesley Cromwell

so effectually destroy good effect
Nothing can so effectually destroy good effect as the usual senseless mixture of deciduous and evergreen shrubs that, alas! is so commonly seen in gardens—a mixture of one each of a quantity of perhaps excellent things planted about three feet apart.
— from Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by E. T. (Ernest Thomas) Cook

soutenue et de grands efforts
In the same Circular a proposed increase of the general strength of the army was indicated in the following terms:— “Notre programme militaire est très vaste et sa réalisation exige une attention soutenue et de grands efforts, mais sans son exécution intégrale notre situation demeurera précaire.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

something else Doctor Grant explained
"We may have to resort to a tube, but in the meantime, we'll try something else," Doctor Grant explained to Jane and Jerry.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

SOUTH EASTERN DIGEST GEORGIA EDITION
SOUTH EASTERN DIGEST, GEORGIA EDITION.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1961 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

sin E D G E
Then, sin E G D: D E :: sin E D G : E G, D E sin E D G or EG= ———————- sin E G D
— from The Sewerage of Sea Coast Towns by Henry Charles Adams

Sartach et de gloria eius
De Curia Sartach et de gloria eius.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 02 by Richard Hakluyt


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