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put a stop to everything like improvement
I have already expressed my opinion on that blind partiality for the ancients, which regards their excellence as a frigid faultlessness, and which exhibits them as models, in such a way as to put a stop to everything like improvement, and reduce us to abandon the exercise of art as altogether fruitless.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

put a stop to everything like indiscriminate
As little can we expect them to range themselves under any regular leader, when we have no pay whatever to give them; and yet it is absolutely necessary that both I myself and Monsieur de Coligny should put a stop to everything like indiscriminate plunder.
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

place at Saxifield the enemy left it
Whatever took place at Saxifield the enemy left it entirely, and the decisive battle took place at the other end of Brunburh.
— from The Danes in Lancashire and Yorkshire by S. W. Partington

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