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To fight at Ilion; from whence his fate-confinéd feet
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She pretends, that she was too volatile, too gay, too airy, to be confin-ed to sedentary amusements.
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There were no longer any confin - ing banks, only a waste of water glittering through the dark foliage.
Ralestone Luck Norton, Andre 1938
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And grief and joy, nor can the groveling mine In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin Aflert the native Ikies, or own its heavenly Nor eling mine, t ifin'd, I ivenly kind.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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To fa - vour their progrefs in ripening, the fol - lowing cautions have been put in prac - tice: To take them from the trees when dry; to lay them carefully in a heap, fo as that none of them may be brufed; then they place them in a warmer part of the confervatory, and cover them clofe to keep up their perfpiration; which confin* - ing the moiflare will efFedl.
The Fruit-gardener: Containing the Method of Raising Stocks, for Multiplying of Fruit-trees, by ... 1768
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Ducal nel luogo ditto Brucio in confin di S. Moise, et fece riedificar la isola di Eraclia. "
Stones of Venice [introductions] John Ruskin 1859
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His colleague whom I had the honor to follow (Mr. Wheaton) what* everelfe he might nothave proven, in his very learned, ingen - ious original expofition of the powers of this government — afiex - pofition in which he has fought, where no body before him has looked, and no body after him will examine, for a grant of our powers, the preamble to the Conftiunion~has clearly fluewm V S40 CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER. td the fatisfactifcti of all who heard hifri, that the power is confin*
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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In procefs of time, God was plea&d to reveal more particularly to Abraham in reward for his faith and obedience, that he (hould be the Father of a nation from which was to come the Mefliah j it was neverthelefs at the fame time declared that the gracious cffedls of his coming (hould not be confin - ed to the Jewifh nation, but be of univer - fal concern and advantage.
Sermons: By the Late Right Reverend John Hinchliffe, ... ... John Hinchliffe 1796
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Jones very (hrewdly fufpedied, that Sophia herfelf was now with her confin, and was denied to him; which he imputed to her refentment for what had hap - pened at Upton.
The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition ... 1783
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