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Examples
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Within the enciente are the remains of the old castle, still solid and upright; erected, it is recorded, by the English during their long occupation of this country.
The Last Hope Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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Cory has a Significant Other, Alice, who is enciente.
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Yet you are aware of my situation; you know that I am _enciente_ by you; all our precautions have failed to prevent that result of our amours.
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson
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The young woman became _enciente_, and died in giving birth to twins -- both daughters.
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson
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Here an emaciated and heart-sick Welsh girl, of thirteen (enciente) lays shivering on the broken floor; there an half-famished Scotch woman, two moaning children nestling at her heart, suffers uncovered upon a pallet of straw.
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It was then that disease seized Ailill's wife, who was _enciente_, so that death was nigh unto her.
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Presque tout ce qu'il produit dans ce genre est consommé dans son enciente.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Various
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I had cured an unmarried female of her acquaintance, but before giving her the medicine I cautioned her not to take it if she was _enciente_, as it would procure abortion.
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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It was lighter there, and I could see dimly that we were passing down an aisle of old espaliers that stretched sturdy, rigid arms, locked finger to finger with each other in their solemn grotesque guardianship of the enciente they enclosed.
The Jervaise Comedy 1910
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She was under the special supervision of the president and was a member of his household -- yet at 14 years of age she became enciente.
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