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The slaves occupying the precincts of the tower, with the mass of goods and chattles, slipped through their fingers, their sole anxiety being to capture Asidates and his belongings.
Anabasis 2007
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[546] For no chattles need you crave (lack), or ask.
"Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902
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The slaves occupying the precincts of the tower, with the mass of goods and chattles, slipped through their fingers, their sole anxiety being to capture Asidates and his belongings.
Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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If a citizen of Boston wished to move with his family and household goods and chattles, (patent medicines, wooden nutmegs and all,) to any point in the Union, he could travel whatever route be pleased, sure of obtaining, both in the South and in his own section, that security of liberty and property, which the federal compact guaranteed to the citizens of all the States.
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In the West Indies, before the glorious day of emancipation had dawned, the slaves there were regarded and treated (as their brethren in America are now) as mere goods and chattles, -- as animals, -- possessing neither soul, nor mind, nor intellect.
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The stranger had stolen in on their hearthstone, robbed them of their lands, goods and chattles, usurped their powers of local legislation, and then closed every door to preferment against them, leaving them without a hope or a crust for the future, on their own shores.
Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Scian Dubh 1855
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Superior Court then held at Charles Towne, [96] and indeed hath from the beginning hurried on these matters with great precipitancy and by his warrant hath caused the estates, goods and chattles of the executed to be seized and disposed of without my knowledge or consent.
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People who need links to point them to reads are no better than donkeys, yes you heard me, four legged, long eared, dumb chattles - whose whose noses can be plucked and pulled just so someone can say look you should read this.
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People who need links to point them to read are no better than donkeys, yes you heard me, four legged, long eared, dumb chattles - whose whose can be plucked and pulled just for bc someone said here look you should read this.
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"for many years" from Anne Beddingfield, "wife and administratrix of the goods and chattles of Christopher Beddingfield, deceased," a small plot of land, known by the name of "The Red Bull."
Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration Joseph Quincy Adams 1913
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