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The long porous roots of the cottonwood are irre - pressible.
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[(\223To-morrow, my) 29.2 (dear madam, I) 22.2 (hope to have the inex) -10.8 (pressible happiness of introducing)] TJ
Honoria Sommerville 1789
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This polyurethane has slightly com - pressible properties.
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I had heard from my dear father, that he was somewhat indisposed, but not confined even to the housej hov; cver, last Tuesday and Wednesday week I was seized with so inex - pressible a desire to see him, that nothing - could exceed it, and nothing could satisfy it, but the going to see him.
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This excellent young nobleman unfortunately fractured his skull by a fall from his horse (when hun'ing) of which he died, universally lamented, on March 22d, I/67, and was buried at Cheneys, to the inex - pressible grief of his noble parents, and of his amiable consort, who, inconsolable for her loss, languished under a consumption
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical Collins, Arthur, 1690?-1760 1812
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This excelleqt young nobkman unfortunately fractured his skull by a fall from bis horse (when hunting) of which he died, universally lamented, on March 22d9 17G7, and was buried at Cheneys, to the inex - pressible grief of his noble parents, and of his amiable consort, who. inconsolable for her loss, languished under a consumption
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But these were mixed with an inex - pressible sympathy, and sense of the buffetings and floods of the dragon, yea, and of his tempta - tions as in the wildfemess; where, though she hungered, yet, with unconquered fortitude, nobly resisted every importunity to command the stones to be made bread.
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[(till I) 22.3 (can cease to love y) 29.3 (ou with that inex) -10.7 (pressible tenderness of affection, which now)] TJ
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[(avoid; and Mr. Dunderton with inex) -10.9 (pressible pleasure fix) -10.9 (e) 3.1 (d the plan of their departure,)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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[(consent of her parents, and to the inex) -11.1 (pressible ang) 8.9 (e) 2.9 (r of her eldest sister, whose heart had)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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