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_Wounds_: Take the Juice of _English Tobacco_, or _Mouse-eare_, after you have sticht it up, with a little Lint, bathe the place is highly approved.
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Emanuel College now cease to convey the sounds of thy festive wit -- thy volumes are no longer seen, like Richard Smith's "bundles of sticht books," strewn upon the floor; and thou hast ceased, in the cause of thy beloved Shakspeare, to delve into the fruitful ore of black-letter literature.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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(_sticht_) of Utrecht, Gelderland and Zutphen, by which they agreed to defend their rights and liberties and to resist all foreign intervention in their affairs by common action as if they were one province, and to establish and maintain freedom of conscience and of worship within their boundaries.
History of Holland George Edmundson 1889
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A number of the most curious, rare, and intrinsically valuable books -- the very insertion of which in a bookseller's catalogue would probably now make a hundred bibliomaniacs start from their homes by star-light, in order to come in for the _first pickings_ -- a number of volumes of this description are huddled together in one lot, and all these classed under the provoking running title of "_Bundles of Books_," or "_Bundles of sticht Books_!"
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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