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- verb Present participle of
repast .
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Deena 2:38 pm: You could try writing it in Word, using that spellcheck, pasting it into a text file and saving it, then repasting it into yWriter.
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Oh, and thanks for repasting the P. Healy article, reading it once on this thread wasn't enough.
Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Poll: Hillary, Huckabee Leading In Iowa 2009
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Oh, and thanks for repasting the P. Healy article, reading it once on this thread wasn't enough.
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Just repasting the URL which seems to have picked up the closing parenthesis in the above post.
Some Top Hillary Hands Concluding She Can't Win Nomination Without Popular Vote 2009
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I conceive therefore, that when God did enlarge the universal diet of mans body, saving ever the rules of temperance, he then also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exercise his own leading capacity.
Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909
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I conceive, therefore, that when God did enlarge the universal diet of mans body, saving ever the rules of temperance, He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exercise his own leading capacity.
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So after repasting themselves, they made them ready for the journey with takeing repose that night.
Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673
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I conceive, therefore, that when God did enlarge the universal diet of man's body, saving ever the rules of temperance, he then also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exercise his own leading capacity.
Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641
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Consider this version (I'm not repasting the fake query data):
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I conceive, therefore, that when God did enlarge the universal diet of man’s body, saving ever the rules of temperance, he then also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exercise his own leading capacity.
Areopagitica 2007
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