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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Binding or edging, as of curtains and hangings.
- noun In cookery, a thickening, or a thick preparation.
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The latter is unquestionably the truth, and common sense, in structed by experience, pronounces it true every liour of the day.
A series of lectures delivered in Park Street Church, Boston, on Sabbath evenings Griffin, Edward Dorr, 1770-1837 1813
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** While I was pondering upon a behavi - our fo unufual, my uncle fuddenly arofe with an afpect of terror, and, looking fternly at the Countefs, faid fomething to her, the im - port of which feemed to be a reproach, as I then imagined, by the words — ruin — diftu» liour — wretchedncfs and diigrace*
Mysteries elucidated [by A.M. Mackenzie]. Anna Maria Mackenzie 1795
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An liour was then appointed for my coming, and Lord S. returned to me with thi&report.
Arundel 1789
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Such papers shall state the place where, and the day and liour jn-ior to which, signed nomination papers shall be filed.
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'vhich fliall come upon and try all flefli; it is an liour, when the world and all its enjoyments can* afford SERMON VIIL 107 sfFord no fupport or comfort; when even the ficih and the heart will fail us.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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Prai/e to God/or hearing Prayer* -4 — 1 TWT O W ihall my fo] emn Vows be paid X\l To. riiat almighty Pow'r That heard the long Requefts I made In my diftreisful liour.
The Book of Psalms: As Translated, Paraphrased, Or Imitated by Some of the Most Eminent English ... 1781
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