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small packages each containing fifteen pennies
Each young pranker had his pockets weighted down with small packages, each containing fifteen pennies.
— from The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

si placuerit extrahe canellum factis punctis
But he now adds, apparently upon his own responsibility, the following paragraph: Quod si placuerit, extrahe canellum: factis punctis in sutura ubi debent fieri antequan stringantur, inter duo puncta canellus extrahatur, et post puncta stringantur.
— from Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry E. (Henry Ebenezer) Handerson

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