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... earliest occurrence of each word . . . one is struck by the frequency with which Shakespeare's name is affixed to the earliest quotation ' . Examples include ' aslant ' as a preposition : ' There is a willow grows aslant a brook ...
... earliest occurrence of each word . . . one is struck by the frequency with which Shakespeare's name is affixed to the earliest quotation ' . Examples include ' aslant ' as a preposition : ' There is a willow grows aslant a brook ...
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... early manner of Greek writing which went from left to right , and right to left alternately [ or , as the OED has it , ' like the course of a plough in successive furrows ' ] . So Solon's laws were written . ' The earliest example of ...
... early manner of Greek writing which went from left to right , and right to left alternately [ or , as the OED has it , ' like the course of a plough in successive furrows ' ] . So Solon's laws were written . ' The earliest example of ...
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... early association with ecclesiastical , then , in the seventeenth century , political conflict . The first OED definition is ' disposed to rebel against God ' . The designation ' church malignant ' , applied by the Fathers of the Church ...
... early association with ecclesiastical , then , in the seventeenth century , political conflict . The first OED definition is ' disposed to rebel against God ' . The designation ' church malignant ' , applied by the Fathers of the Church ...
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