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  1. An old form of also and as. Better is then the lowly playne, Als for thy flocke and thee. Spenser, Shep. Cal., July. Als longe as owre lyf lasteth lyue we togideres. Piers Plowman (B), iv. 195.

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  • Instead, he was intent on examining the wall behind the desk, thrusting a paw in the narrow space and mumbling frustrated gutter-als There was another crack of thunder and bolt of lightning directly overhead. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_13_The_Cat_Who_Moved_a_Mountain
  • The infrared spectrometer will be able to identify many types of miner­als, for example granite and endocite . —  skylab
  • Im Jahre 1827 erschien German Romances in 4 Bänden, wo er, aus den Erzählungen und Mährchen deutscher Schriftsteller als: Musäus , La Motte Fouqué , Tieck , Hoffmann , Jean Paul und Goethe , heraushob, was er seiner Nation am gemässesten zu seyn glaubte. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
  • I mean, of course I'm awfully sorry you've lost your money, [208] but it makes it all the easier for us to be real pals, don't you think so Lost my money Well, I know you wouldn't be here if you hadn't. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Then there were ope-als, which opened doors, and sapph-fires, which burned with blue fire, useful for igniting wood. —  Roc and a Hard Place
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