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  • I profoundly agree that entrance to museums should be free to all - and I also think that there should be a well-posted facility to make tax-deductible donations for those who want to.

    Top Ten Ways to Lose Votes: Instalment No 94 2007

  • PUNCHINELLO has been pained to notice the wretched material with which, for want of a well-posted New York correspondent, the country editor of the period

    Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 Various

  • The fire of the redoubt and the batteries being aided by a well-posted armed brig flanking the right of the British lines, made the whole column stagger and reel like drunken men; and Colonel Maitland, seizing the critical moment, issued forth with a mixed corps of grenadiers and marines, and charged them at the point of the bayonet.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • He that giveth a hundred kine with horns mounted with gold to a Brahmana well-posted up in the Vedas and all branches of learning, and he that daily listeneth to the sacred narrations of the Bharata, acquireth equal merit.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • He that giveth a hundred kine with horns mounted with gold to a Brahmana well-posted up in the Vedas and all branches of learning, and he that daily listeneth to the sacred narrations of the

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • So MACLURE joked, and so, as JULIUS 'ANNIBAL, naturally well-posted up in this epoch of history, reminds me, NERO fiddled whilst Rome burned.

    Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 Various

  • Now, any well-posted stockman will tell you that, on an average, a full-grown wolf will destroy one thousand dollars 'worth of stock every year of its life.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • Really to appreciate the Pantheon you must be well-posted in nineteenth-century history.

    Humanly Speaking Samuel McChord Crothers

  • To Isaiah, the keen-sighted and well-posted young statesman, however, neither the country nor the king was fit to deal with a great national crisis -- and the future had one in store.

    Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile) Isaac Landman

  • Not so with Peppino; the wily and well-posted Italian was constantly on the alert, scanning every thicket, clump of trees or turn of the road with a searching look long before they came to it; although nothing suspicious had as yet met his gaze, he was not by any means either satisfied or reassured.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

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