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To this day she trembles at the word "loil," (I believe I spell it correctly,) knowing, as she does, that the dreaded and mysterious syllables, Ku-Klux, will most assuredly follow it.
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It is still "loil" to old England, the strumpet of nations, the governmental harlot of history.
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It is leated in a loil fertile in corn and good wine, on the river Mouzon, 25 miles sw of Nanci, and 1 50 E by s of Pari*.
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The loil is vei y rich and fertile j the trees and plants are verdant all the year.
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After Mr. Lemon * had loil all that he had, whatever, he had, he afked for change of a draft.
Sporting Magazine 1795
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By the crufade againft the Albi - genfes, the counts of Thouloufe loil their power; and the vid: ory of Eouvines diminifhed that oT the earls of Flanders. —
The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792
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V/hy your queen and mother r More humble titles fuit my loil: condition.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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He loil both his parents Vhen he was fo young that Ue had a very faint remembrance cf thofe pear rela. tio'ns.
The New Novelist's Magazine, Or Entertaining Library of Pleasing and Instructive Histories ... 1787
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What a jnisiprtune it is to the Chriilian world, that this ineftimable treafwre is almoft entirely loil!
The New Christian's Magazine: Being an Universal Repository of Divine Knowledge 1783
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Reafon and virtue, all that man can boaft O'er other creatures, in thofe brutes are loil.
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1781
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