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sold which are really useful playthings
Toy sewing machines are now sold which are really useful playthings, and on which the child can manufacture a number of small articles.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne

state was a really useful present
Hence a chair of state was a really useful present.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

stones which are reared up perpendicularly
Dolmens are monuments composed of a great block or slab of rock, more or less flat in their shape according to the country in which they [Pg 185] are situate, placed horizontally on a certain number of stones which are reared up perpendicularly to serve as its supports.
— from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier

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