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Nor writ her name whofe tomb ihould pierce the fleics.
Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791
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The price of the king*$ head, or his weregild, as It was tnen called, was by law 30,000 thrimfas, a fpecies of coin whofe value is uncertain.
The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire 1778
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Only fome one or two places I haue fhewed to my worthy and moft learned friend, M. Harriots, for his cenfure how much mine owne weighed: whofe iudgement and knowledge in all kinds, I know to be incomparable, and bottomlefle; yea, to be admired as much, as his moft blameles life, and the right facred expence of his time, is to be honoured and reuerenced.
Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885
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The captain tooK the old man (whofe name was now round to be Paowang) to the woods, and made him underfland he wanted to cut down fome trees to take on board the fhip; cutung down fome at the fame time, which they put into one of the boats, together with a few fmall cafks of water, with a view of letting the people fee what it was they chiefly wanted.
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Vir - ghia. alone, cannot ele6\ a prefident, whofe elevation depends on aplurality of electoral votes and a confequent concurrence of ma - nr ftates.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Good hopes may be entertained of thofe whofe minds have this liberal and elegant turn.
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I did, faid Mr.R. * as one of the Committee, put many queitions to the gentlemen attending, but under the difad vantage at the commencement of a total unacquaintance with the futge&i at all times under the reftraint arifing from interrogating gentle - men of high refpe&ability on points in which their interefts op - pokd a dire£\ anfwer, and who appeared for others, the circurn - fiances of whofe cafe was more exceptionable.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The country affords a great many drugs and medicinal herbs, whofe virtues are not unknown to fome of them that pretend to cure the fick ...
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The Chief revered, whofe daring hand Laid Spain's haughty banner low,
The lay of Corneelis: in three cantos, by an officer [T.W. Taylor] who was present at the storm ... Thomas William Taylor 1812
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Eleven hundred and forty two were dif - charged* or ordered to be fot and eight hundred and five were detained for further proof, with the firongeft prefumption that the greater part, if not the whole were Americans, or other aliens whofe proof of citizen fhip had been loft or deftroyed - ■ ',
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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