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The _Termination_ of the _Participle Present of the Verb Active_, is always formed out of the _first Person Present_ by adding the Syllable
A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) Henry Bate
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I. iii.137 (414,6) Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings] [W: feats] _Present fears_ are _fears of things present_, which Macbeth declares, and every man has found, to be less than the _imagination_ presents them while the objects are yet distant.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Voting 'Present' is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
Archive 2008-09-01 Not a sheep 2008
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The methodology is called "Present Value to the Infinite Horizon", or PVIH.
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How realistic is your portrayal of bankruptcy and liquidation as presented in Present Value?
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The Present is Japanese or, LAUNCH! by nickmamatas
The Present is Japanese or, LAUNCH! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science. 2009
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From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 To The Present is 802-page book by Jacques Barzun that looks at the last 500 years of western cultural life.
Books 2009
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A highly unusual verb in Present-day English: it has only this one verb form.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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A highly unusual verb in Present-day English: it has only this one verb form.
Rumor Mill 2008
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Badr al-Din Hasan, said to him, Know, O my son, that the world of the Present is but a house of mortality, while that of the
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