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He has had five and twenty copies done up in papier machia at $9.00.
James Fenimore Cooper Phillips, Mary E 1912
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He has had five and twenty copies done up in papier machia at $9.00.
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_Poggio's Liber Facetiarum_ or the _Hypneroto-machia_ of _Poliphili_ for a publisher; I forget which, for I copied both; and returned very pale to my troubled family.
Four Years 1897
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Pygmæo-gerano-machia: The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes 89
The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems James Beattie 1769
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The next and leveral following days, he diverted the people with plays, races in the circus, (hews of gladiators, combats of wild beafts, fea-fights in the Nau« machia, and all forts of entertainments *.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1780
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