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... seems to have come to the rescue of a correspondent who said that it did not . It is difficult indeed to say that any French word rimes with any English word , and Loubet certainly does not rime with " may . " But the Sun now seems to ...
... seems to have come to the rescue of a correspondent who said that it did not . It is difficult indeed to say that any French word rimes with any English word , and Loubet certainly does not rime with " may . " But the Sun now seems to ...
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... seem to be related . From a cartwheel that is out of gear the term has been transferred to anything else that has ... seems to be ' Hamersmyth , " which , split up into its constituents , would be " Hamer's myth . " The A.-S. myða is ...
... seem to be related . From a cartwheel that is out of gear the term has been transferred to anything else that has ... seems to be ' Hamersmyth , " which , split up into its constituents , would be " Hamer's myth . " The A.-S. myða is ...
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... seems in its choice of the prefixes -in and -un : the former is used where either the Latin or French had it already , whereas the latter is added if the formation took place on English soil - e.g . , unavoidable , unendurable , unin ...
... seems in its choice of the prefixes -in and -un : the former is used where either the Latin or French had it already , whereas the latter is added if the formation took place on English soil - e.g . , unavoidable , unendurable , unin ...
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... seems to be required for explanation of the language of Juvenal ( Sat. xiv . 103 ) and Tacitus ( ' Hist . , ' v . 5 ) . Questions as to the fate of the heathen after death would naturally be debated by the rabbis ; and when we find it ...
... seems to be required for explanation of the language of Juvenal ( Sat. xiv . 103 ) and Tacitus ( ' Hist . , ' v . 5 ) . Questions as to the fate of the heathen after death would naturally be debated by the rabbis ; and when we find it ...
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... seems to suggest the contrary . The inference is that the power of self - control is permanently weakened . Still ... seem to have taken ten years to do so , and the date they minuted as 14 February , 1761 , Old Style , was equivalent to ...
... seems to suggest the contrary . The inference is that the power of self - control is permanently weakened . Still ... seem to have taken ten years to do so , and the date they minuted as 14 February , 1761 , Old Style , was equivalent to ...
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