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  • Thus the community is "lustrated" every six Months.

    Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • In any case the numbers negatively lustrated are very few and likely to decline as privatization of state industry reduces the number of jobs affected by the screening process.

    Human Rights in Prague Almond, Mark 1992

  • An interesting feature of this ceremony is that the center of the floor, the place intended for the doorway, and one or more of the posts, are lustrated with the blood of the victim.

    The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

  • -- (42) No month or day of month being given, we will express three figures thus: E {v} olution's {l} aws i {l} lustrated =   (1) 855

    Assimilative Memory or, How to Attend and Never Forget

  • No common correspondence could possibly have had the number of attractively boxed gifts, the amount of handsomely printed literary and il-lustrated matter, and certainly not the unfailing persistency of flow, that constituted the correspondence of Mr. Simcox.

    This Freedom 1925

  • Henry I. Wardle's carol 'I.care not for spring' (P.P. 36) was adapted to this air, and printed in How's I.lustrated Book of British Song.

    Charles Dickens and Music Lightwood, James T 1912

  • The next morning they lustrated themselves with water, and immediately they were healed.

    Hills and the Sea Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • Author of "The Day of Days," "The Destroying Angel," etc. I.lustrated by A.I. Keller.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • Author of "The Bandbox," "The Day of Days," etc. I.lustrated by A.I. Keller.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • Williamsport 't other day -- a storekeeper -- a big, fat man with a beard like Abraham's in the 'lustrated Bible.

    The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

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