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Chateaubriand said truly that: "le talent de George Sand a quelque ratine dans la corruption, elle deviendrait commune en devenant timoree."
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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"One Persian blanket, one quilt of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse of fox-skin, covered with red ratine, forty roubles; one small touloup of hare-skin left with your grace, on the steppe, fifteen roubles."
Marie; a story of Russian love Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818
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Covenants with Sinjlers and ratine them in his Name ..
The Reasonableness of a Toleration: Enquir'd Into, Purely on Church ... 1705
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Intelligent mariners know how to calculate the force neceflary to break off (hort the main-matt of a man of war; and can judge whether 1 have exaggerated in ratine the velocity of the wind* is the raoft violent tempefts, at 150 feet in a fecond.
The Monthly Review 1791
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