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from The Century Dictionary.
- While.
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Examples
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The Minister was apprised that work on parking place and area lighting at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh is in progress whileas the construction work of toilet complex, sun deck, paving of ghats, pathways, archways, fencing have been completed under 2nd phase at Jiapotha, Akhnoor.
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The Minister was apprised that work on parking place and area lighting at a cost of Rs. 75 lakh is in progress whileas the construction work of toilet complex, sun deck, paving of ghats, pathways, archways, fencing have been completed under 2nd phase at Jiapotha, Akhnoor.
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(Danceth Ibn Irs whileas Nims doth sing) and explains Nims by ichneumon and Ibn Irs as a “species of small weasel or ferret, very common in Egypt: it comes into the house, feeds upon meat, is of gentle disposition although not domesticated and full of gambols and frolic.”
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I will thank thee and thank whileas life shall last,
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Hind: and whileas King Teghmus was sitting at his pleasance, there came one in to him and said, ‘I see from afar a cloud of dust spireing high in air and overspreading the lift.’
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Be a-framing of strife, whileas tholeth the sword,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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(Danceth Ibn Irs whileas Nims doth sing) and explains Nims by ichneumon and Ibn Irs as a "species of small weasel or ferret, very common in Egypt: it comes into the house, feeds upon meat, is of gentle disposition although not domesticated and full of gambols and frolic."
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"-- whileas others do yet maintain, with much show of reason, that this is not of necessity the case, instancing that plums and other like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state --"
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"-- whileas others do yet maintain, with much show of reason, that this is not of necessity the case, instancing that plums and other like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state --"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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"-- whileas others do yet maintain, with much show of reason, that this is not of necessity the case, instancing that plums and other like cereals do be always dug in the unripe state --"
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7. Mark Twain 1872
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