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to any brewer or retail dealer any
Any person contravening was liable to a penalty of L. 200, and any druggist selling to any brewer or retail dealer any colouring or malt substitute was to be fined L. 500.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

that a body of Russian dragoons and
Oudinot knew that his troops were somewhere in the region of Sienno and was heading for that town when, on arriving at Rasna, he was warned by a Polish priest that a body of Russian dragoons and some Cossacks was roaming the area.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

tied a bow of ribbon dull and
Philip noticed that about each of the dueling pistols was tied a bow of ribbon, dull and faded, as though the passing of generations had robbed them of beauty and color, to be replaced by the somberness of age.
— from Flower of the North: A Modern Romance by James Oliver Curwood

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