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them and curing them of imaginary diseases
When he happened to overhear her talking to her dolls one day, laying her hands upon them, and curing them of imaginary diseases, he concluded it was high time for him to act.
— from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

TO A CERTAIN THREE OAKS IN DRUID
112 TO A CERTAIN THREE OAKS IN DRUID HILL PARK Let me lean against you, my Loves, Give me a place, my darlings, I am so happy, so fain, so full, in your large company.
— from Poem Outlines by Sidney Lanier

thereunto and coming to Onias in deceit
2 Mac 4:34 Wherefore Menelaus, taking Andronicus apart, prayed, him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him, yet persuaded he him to come forth of the sanctuary: whom forthwith he shut up without regard of justice.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

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