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Encroach on our rights, and make freedom their prize;
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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Operations Encroach on Banks During Loan Crunch; 'Here, I Feel Respected'.
Payday Lenders Go Hunting Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2010
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But Higher Capacity Could Encroach on Turf of High-End Offerings.
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Greek Cows Encroach on Bulgaria's Territory, Locals Up in Arms
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Greek Cows Encroach on Bulgaria's Territory, Locals Up in Arms
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But we are told, with a great deal of Artifice and affected Popu - larity, That this Proceeding of the H. ef C s is for the Gcod of the People; that 'tis Neceflary to affert the Privilege of the C s, elpecially in the Cafe of their Power of Imprifonment; that we muft not Countenance the Judicature of the Houfe of LORDS; that they Encroach upon us thereby, and will in time grow, too Powerful over our Eftates.
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"Root of hemlock, _digg'd i 'the dark_."] [Footnote III. 90: _Usurp_] Encroach upon.] [Footnote III. 91: _Let the strucken deer go weep_,] Shakespeare, in _As you like it_, in allusion to the wounded stag, speaks of the _big round tears_ which _cours'd one another down his innocent nose in piteous chase_.
Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590
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