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Six o'clock was our usual hour of departure, and ten or twelve hours our traveling time, always tying up at a plaia or island, of which there are hosts in the Napo, but never to the main land, for fear of unfriendly Indians and the still more unwelcome tiger.
The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853
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God speaks, and speaks plaia enough, but they do not hear.
The Works... Joseph Bellamy 1812
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Btsfc 1& I b To Mm its freedom Mutina shall owe, 1 fo And Deems his auspicious coudnct know; I h His dreadful powers shall shake Pharsalia's plaia, | M And drench in gore PhiKpprs fields again: \ k A mighty leader, in Sicilians flood,
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* 'Could you have believed that such » meek, good-humoured woman, as Mrs. Barbara always pretended to be, could have gone into such a passion? but 'tis plaia the shoe pinches, or she would not have lost her temper.'
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* Irillling in the Lurd; 'aod hereof wt have a plaia in - ftaacfl in Paul'» cafe, x Tim. f.
A View of the Covenant of Grace from the Sacred Records.: Wherein the Parties in that Covenant ... 1797
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I love to pour out all myiclf, as plaia As downright Shippcn, or as old MootagVK:
Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791
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Though their proud affumption might juftify the feyereft tefts, yet in trying their abilities on their financial pro - ceedings, I would only confider what is the plaia obvious duty of a common finance minifter, and try them upon that, and not upon models of ideal perfeflion.
Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790
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Moreover 1 faw in my Dream, that the pilgrims, having bid adieu to the fhepherd*, went down from the mountain in the plaia, having a las g, e valley be - fore, which was called the valley of Vain-opinions»
The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come .. 1785
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Swells thro ', the grove, and melts along the plaia*
The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry 1781
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£sq. of Sneed Park, against Colo - nel Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle, for breaking and entering the plaia -
Sporting Magazine 1812
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