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Inhabitants, therein contain'd: But Providence so order'd it, that it was discover'd before 'twas too late, and extinguish'd before much hurt, only that Cell with its Moveables, was destroy'd, and the Body so disfigur'd, that it could not be known, but was much lamented by the good Dames, really supposing it to be this our Fugitive.
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Inhabitants, therein contain'd: But Providence so order'd it, that it was discover'd before 'twas too late, and extinguish'd before much hurt, only that Cell with its Moveables, was destroy'd, and the Body so disfigur'd, that it could not be known, but was much lamented by the good Dames, really supposing it to be this our Fugitive.
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_Royal Support_, they even went so far as to sell their Plate, and valuable Moveables, to answer the same _generous Purpose_: But, when every known Acre in the Kingdom, that could be disposed of, was given away by
An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland Henry Brooke
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Moveables about her I perceive, what e're the Ready is.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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The only _natural_ classification of the objects of enjoyment, the only classification which corresponds with an essential difference in the subject-matter, is that which divides them into Moveables and
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society Henry Sumner Maine 1855
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If the Produce of the Nation be in Moveables Land and Labour Fifty Millions in a Year, and only Forty Eight Millions are expended to maintain the People: Now has the Nation added Two Millions to its Capital, but if it spends Fifty One Millions, then is that to be made good by sinking Part of the Personal Estate, or Mortgaging the real.
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Moveables as they thought fit to save, and with 120 Days Provisions, were receiv'd at the time of the Floud; and the rest of their Goods being put into great Vessels made of China Ware, and fast luted down on the top, were preserv'd unhurt by the Water: These Ships they furnish'd with 600 Fathom of Chain instead of Cables; which being fastned by wonderful Arts to the Earth, every Vessel rid out the
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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Happiness, a vigorous passionate Lover, and then not only cheat him of his Moveables, but his Desires too.
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Clothes, my Money, and all my Moveables; but this is nothing to the Secret taking Air.
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-- I'll see what Moveables they have about them, all's lawful Prize in War.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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