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  • Against his will he sat in Gammage's headquarters, trying to keep his mind re - ceptive to scout reports.

    Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

  • The best observer in the end is not he who works at the microscope or telescope most unceasingly, but he whose whole nature becomes sensitive and re - ceptive, drinking in everything, like a sponge that saturates itself with all floating vapors and odors, though it seems inert and unsuspicious until you press it and it tells the tale.

    Oldport Days 1873

  • It is not surprising, therefore, In recent years, fi gures given by the Agency, for that given an average failure rate of the contra - example in elderly drug-testing studies, appear to ceptive pill of 2%, or even with the most stringent have been hand-tallied rather than garnered from compliance, a failure fate of 0.5/100 women years composite computer access.

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  • I deny, that the flave laws have been executed with humanity, mildnefs, and mercy; and I aver, that the Committee, at the time they framed this de - ceptive report, had before them the mod authen - tick proofs of abominable cruelty in the execu - tion of thofe very laws: they acknowledge that

    Notes on the two reports from the Committee of the Honourable House of Assembly of Jamaica : appointed to examine into, and to report to the House, the allegations and charges contained in the several petitions which have been presented to the British House of Commons, on the subject of the slave trade and the treatment of the Negroes, &c. &c. &c. 1789

  • The director of the Massachusetts agricultural experiment station or his authorized deputy may refuse to register any commercial feeding stuft 'under a name, brand, or trade-mark which, in his opinion, would be misleading or de - ceptive, or which would tend to mislead or deceive as to the materials of which the feeding stuft' is composed.

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • At the close of the Convention, a hundred and sixteen days later, Simon Starr would draft a per - ceptive memorandum regarding his major experi - ences; these notes would not record the great debates or the machinations by which the new government was formed, but they would depict honestly one young man's reactions to the men who gathered in Philadelphia that hot summer, and no entry was more illuminating than his sum - mary of the people involved:

    Legacy Michener, James 1987

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