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Examples
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Then there are those who took early retirement or rifing on less than favorable terms.
Candidates Weigh In on Jobs Report - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Grass thin, bristle grass quilling, rifing in the light's bone yellows,
King of the Ghosts 2010
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Ascare winde is rifing again about nice boys going native.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Page 32 there was a word nationally that was used, not only by legal services but by others, and that was called, rifing, reduction in force, and you had to rif people, it was better than say fire them I guess.
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It is all a fleep fhore againfl the open fea;. but in this bay or found we were now in, the land is low by the fea-fide, rifing gradually
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From this place to the point of little Hativa the fliore is guarded by an uninter - rupted range of funken rocks, which prevent all approach, and from thefe to the pais, there is likewife no rifing bottom, except clofe to the fhore.
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At noon they difcovered another point of the fame land, rifing in a round hillock, extremely like the Ram Head at the entrance of Plymouth Sound, for which reafon Captain Cook gave it the fame name.
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On Tueiday, they faw very large columns of fmoke rifing from the low lands.
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Dim-feen, through rifing mifts and ccafeleft fhow'rs,
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Both of thefe, efpectally the firilf abound with an oily matter, which, rifing along with the fpirit, com - municates a difagreeable flavour to it, and from which it can fcarce be freed afterwards by any means Vhat - ever.
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