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• Sometimes a beck is conducted under the canal, and passages called culverts serve as a roadway for men and beasts. —  The Life of Thomas Telford
• Think what was his power All knowledge at his beck--the very Devil His common slave. —  The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)
• When running through the vat they fall down in folds at the back part of the beck, and are drawn out of the bottom and up in the front. —  The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• It would be some time before a gypsy would hand over his brother to the harum-beck, even supposing you would not only make him a king, but a justice of the peace, and not only give him the world, but the best farm on the Holkham estate; but gypsies are wild foxes, and there is certainly a wonderful difference between the way of thinking of the wild fox who retains his brush, and that of the scurvy kennel creature who has lost his tail Ah! —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• As in Lübeck, the Bürgerschaft, of 150 members, is elected by all of the citizens, but under a class system according to which citizens who have studied at a university return fourteen members; the merchants, forty; the mechanics and manufacturers, twenty; and all other citizens who have taken the burgher oath, the remaining seventy-six. —  The Governments of Europe

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