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... describes the spelling ' gaol ' as ' archaic ' and ' obsolete in the spoken language ' . Examples include ' Carrie this mad knaue to the laile ' ( Taming of the Shrew ) . But as far as I can see there is something even more significant ...
... describes the spelling ' gaol ' as ' archaic ' and ' obsolete in the spoken language ' . Examples include ' Carrie this mad knaue to the laile ' ( Taming of the Shrew ) . But as far as I can see there is something even more significant ...
Strona 54
... describes as the apparent difficulty of ' describing the way someone is tied up ' . One says the Nigerian victim of the attempted kidnapping earlier this month , Dr Dikko , was discovered in a crate at Stansted Airport ' kneeling with ...
... describes as the apparent difficulty of ' describing the way someone is tied up ' . One says the Nigerian victim of the attempted kidnapping earlier this month , Dr Dikko , was discovered in a crate at Stansted Airport ' kneeling with ...
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... describes it as a ' nonce - use ' ; certainly there are no more examples of the verb's use with social connotations . A century and a half later it appears in the sense of describing a rifle bullet's expanding and flattening : ' Such a ...
... describes it as a ' nonce - use ' ; certainly there are no more examples of the verb's use with social connotations . A century and a half later it appears in the sense of describing a rifle bullet's expanding and flattening : ' Such a ...
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