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the rhubarb into small pieces and stew them
Cut the stalks of the rhubarb into small pieces, and stew them with some lemon peel till tender.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

thar ryvest in syndry partis And sersys turnand
And hastely in mynd on euery sydis Now for this purpos, now for that, providis, Now heir, now thar, ryvest in syndry partis, And sersys, turnand to and fra all artis.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil

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