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unsatisfactory not carrying out in full
I have found all which I have ever seen, unsatisfactory, not carrying out in full, the benefits claimed for them.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

upon native communities or individuals for
I can nowhere learn upon what legal basis, if any, the punishments inflicted upon native communities or individuals for failure to comply with the various forms of “prestations” rest.
— from Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo [and Further Correspondence] by Roger Casement

up night closes over its fragments
Never again can your voice soothe the lassitude of sickness with the legend and the song; the course is run, the vessel is broken up, night closes over its fragments; but now, in this hour, love me, be kind to me as ever.
— from The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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