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  • My line of questioning to JAM was to make it evident he was using an unwholsome debate tactic, and that I was quite onto what he was doing.

    Behe Responds 2007

  • My line of questioning to JAM was to make it evident he was using an unwholsome debate tactic, and that I was quite onto what he was doing.

    Behe Responds 2007

  • However, in this great Exigence to which this Usurper was reduced, he resolves to open this Place, be the event what it will; which was perform'd with great difficulty, and divers Persons entered, who were immediately suffocated, and fell down dead; which was surprizing at first; but on second thoughts, it was easily concluded to be the unwholsome

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • However, in this great Exigence to which this Usurper was reduced, he resolves to open this Place, be the event what it will; which was perform'd with great difficulty, and divers Persons entered, who were immediately suffocated, and fell down dead; which was surprizing at first; but on second thoughts, it was easily concluded to be the unwholsome

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • But I believe the former is more owing to the water used in the Lower Town, which is very hard and unwholsome.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • I asked why their cardinals and princes did not invite and encourage industrious people to settle and cultivate the Campania of Rome, which is a desert? why they did not raise a subscription to drain the marshes in the neighbourhood of the city, and thus meliorate the air, which is rendered extremely unwholsome in the summer, by putrid exhalations from those morasses?

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • There is a vulgar Saying, that Claims are unwholsome in every Month of the Year, which has not an R. in it.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 June 1774, "The Prophet of York..." 1963

  • To avoid this unwholsome and unseemly inconvenience, a wooden instrument is generally used in all instances where onions form a part of the cookery appendages.

    A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves Hugh Smith

  • Methods; and also several curious Receipts for feeding, fining and preserving Malt Liquors, that are most of them wholsomer than the Malt itself, and so cheap that none can object against the Charge, which I thought was the ready way to supplant the use of those unwholsome

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Hence it is that such whole Wheat is loaded with the qualities of the unwholsome Settlements or Grounds of the Beer, and becomes of such a corroding Nature, as to do this mischief; and for that reason, some in the

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

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