etcetera

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He said that three thousand dollars, all I possessed, was a capital sum, but not sufficient to marry on, and that he could not risk his daughter's happiness, etcetera, etcetera--you know the rest.

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  • Overlapping dissolves; interruptions of the visual flow; posing dressed-exactly-alike triplets in the backgrounds; shots marred on purpose by out-of-focus objects in the foreground; morphing for morphing's sake; etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. —  FSF - April2006
  • The pulleys by which sails, etcetera, are hoisted, are named blocks_. —  Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
  • All the yards, etcetera, are hoisted and shifted, and held in their position, by a complicated arrangement of cordage, which in the mass is called the running-rigging, in contradistinction to the standing-rigging, which, as we have said, is fixed_, and keeps the masts, etcetera, immovably in position. —  Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
  • The cost in detail is as follows Lifeboat and her equipments|300 pounds Transporting carriage 100 pounds Boat-house (average cost) |150 pounds Total 550 pounds The sums granted last year for the saving of 714 lives by lifeboats, shore-boats, etcetera, amounted to nearly 1,300 pounds (about 1 pound 16 shillings 6 pence each life!) —  The Lifeboat
  • He said that three thousand dollars, all I possessed, was a capital sum, but not sufficient to marry on, and that he could not risk his daughter's happiness, etcetera, etcetera--you know the rest. —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
 

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