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• We saw some growing on the way to Fox Fell There's a fine clump at the bottom of the garden, so you needn't go out of bounds to get it," replied Miss Todd, glancing at her pupil with eyes that clearly saw through all subterfuges The Principal was determined that Diana and Wendy, having deliberately broken a rule, should suffer the just consequences, and she did not intend to remit one jot or tittle of the punishment she had inflicted. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
• No one surrendered a jot or tittle of these rights by consenting to the formation of the Government. —  History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States
• Will it diminish, by one jot or tittle, its awful obligation? —  A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
• The union of the democracies will be the culmination of the world-wide drama begun by the spirit of Lafayette Jesus Christ, nineteen hundred years ago in his Sermon on the Mount, said to the wondering multitude: "For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." —  The Spirit of Lafayette
• One jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from it till all be fulfilled. —  The Spirit of Lafayette

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