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Examples
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Thyrsis drove to the farm, and carried off the farmer and his wife to the nearest notary-public.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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The brutal fellow who destroyed the old Germanic Empire was the son of a Corsican notary-public who had made a brilliant career in the service of the French Republic.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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Having fallen seriously ill in 1701, and believing himself at the point of death, immediately after receiving the last sacraments he had a notary-public draw up in his presence and before witnesses a solemn protest which shows how greatly he was affected by the condemnation levelled at his head by the Spanish Inquisition.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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One day as I was wandering over the world I came upon the valley where I was born, and stopping there a moment to speak with them all -- when I had argued politics with the grocer, and played the great lord with the notary-public, and had all but made the carpenter a
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Bernaldez -- notary-public, as he said, of his armada -- read to me on behalf of the very illustrious Gonçalo Pereira, captain-general of the Portuguese armada, have been made upon me on the petition of
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Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, without there being found any interpolation or erasure which would occasion doubt; and the said
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Before leaving Pernambuco he desires that a testimony of everything that has happened since his departure from Spain until his arrival at Pernambuco be taken down by the notary-public, this testimony being taken from the men who had come with him, "and the Frenchmen who were present at my undoing, and others who heard it from persons who were in the ships of the French who destroyed me."
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And if he do not this, I declare by all the declarations of the protest sent to him through Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, on the twenty-first of October, in the year one thousand five hundred and sixty-eight, that all the losses, deaths, dispossessions of property, and damages consequent shall fall upon his grace, while I shall remain free and absolved therefrom.
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Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet, without there being found any interlineation or erasure which would cause doubt -- although there is an erasure of the word _no_ [ "not"] which was made without deceitful purpose.
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I wrote to his Grace again the next day, sending my letter by Pero Bernaldez, notary-public of this fleet.
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