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&c. , rare except in titles.
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LXX. — ‘Now what can their two noddles be about?’ cried my father ... &c .. ..
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LXX. — ‘Now what can their two noddles be about?’ cried my father ... &c .. ..
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Southern bowers, &c, which my modesty would not allow me to suppose had any reference to the tall young surgeon.
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This distinguished legacy, and the still more distinguished words in which it is bequeathed -- not my foreign secretary, chaplain, &c. but "my friend, the Reverend Alexander Scott," -- must ever bear ample testimony of a regard, even at that period, which does Dr. Scott so much substantial honour.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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By making gin, &c. as good if not better, we might in a few years, meet those foreign merchants in their own markets, and undersell them; which we certainly could do, by making our liquors good, and giving them the same age.
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On the 12th November, 5 & 6 Philip and Mary, 1558, a bill "That no man shall print any book or ballad, &c., unless he be authorized thereunto by the king and queen's majesties licence, under the Great Seal of Englande," was read for the first time in the House of Lords, where it was read again
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_Winner and Waster_, &c, ab. 1360, lately issued for the Roxburghe Club;
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Those who do not volunteer and organize, to assemble at places of rendezvous and be formed into companies, &c, and elect their officers.
The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America Passed at the Fourth Session of the First Congress, 1863-4 : Carefully Collated with the Originals at Richmond. Confederate States of America 1864
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Authorize the Gov. to take possession of, &c, 54 56 64 65 66
Journal of the Senate at an Extra Session of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Convened Under the Proclamation of the Governor, March 10th, 1864. Georgia. General Assembly. Senate 1864
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Eggs $1 &c, war prices sure enough, but then we must live, and nothing is as good for the fatigues of a soldier's life as a hearty diet, nothing so good to keep off disease.
Augusta County: Jedediah Hotchkiss to Sara A. Hotchkiss, August 3, 1862 Jedediah Hotchkiss 1862
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June 6, 2011