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- v. lose vigor, health, or flesh, as through grief
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“Having mentioned these facts for the purpose of shewing that the Richmond Academy was entitled to rank among the most respectable institutions of the State, but was about to pine away for want of houses, Mr.L. said he had frankly confessed, why the Trustees had not provided them.”
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I
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