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  • Sir Robert, looking at her with all the exultation of new-raised vanity, said, with more softness than he had ever before addressed her,

    Cecilia 2008

  • Having spent, a few years after I was of age, [the whole of] a considerable patrimony, excepting a few hundreds, I had no resource but to purchase a commission in a new-raised regiment, destined to subjugate America.

    Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman 2002

  • Or hold my ruin on this hill where new-raised walls are still,

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Or hold my ruin on this hill where new-raised walls are still,

    The Magi'i Of Cyador Modesitt, L. E. 2000

  • Oxfordshire is now over, he has got a scheme in his head about getting a lieutenancy and adjutancy in the 86th, a new-raised regiment, which he fancies will be ordered to the Cape of Good Hope.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • As must ever be the case in new-raised armies, unused to danger and from which undeserving officers have not been expelled, their conduct was not uniform.

    Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

  • Where the new-raised tropic city sweats and roars,

    Verses 1889-1896 Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Where the new-raised tropic city sweats and roars,

    The Seven Seas Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • She nosed up unparochial byways and accommodation - roads of the least accommodation, and put old scarred turf or new-raised molehills under her most marvellous springs with never a jar.

    Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • The ragged, wild-eyed man who had been kneeling rigid and immovable before the wooden symbol reared upon the new-raised cairn of boulders swayed a little.

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

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