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  • Page 157 big seas molest with waves and inundations, stealthily drowning cities overnight, and sucking down tall navies as a child gulps sugarplums; whereas how many plants and gums and seeds bear man's destruction in their tiny hearts! what soulless beasts of the field and of the wood are everywhere enleagued in endless feud against him, with tusks and teeth, with nails and claws and venomous stings, made sharp for man's demolishment!

    The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

  • ARGYLE, with whom I constantly corresponded, warned me to abscond, till conviction had undeceived the credulous, and mortified the undesigning; for, to my utter surprize, I was named as the first of a conspiracy, enleagued to assassinate the king.

    Monmouth: a Tale, Founded on Historic Facts 1790

  • Miramon spoke seriously in saying that fate also was enleagued to forbid the leaving of this mountain? "

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

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