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• We may perhaps regard the ninth century as the period of the transformation of the cantilθnes into the chansons de geste_; in the fragment of Latin prose of the tenth century--reduced to prose from hexameters, but not completely reduced--discovered at La Haye (and named after the place of its discovery), is found an epic episode of Carlovingian war, probably derived from a chanson de geste of the preceding century. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• They decided that it would be best to rest a few days before they commenced upon certain additions which they contemplated The stock of provisions was already much reduced, and the question of supplies for the future demanded attention. —  Hope and Have or, Fanny Grant Among the Indians, A Story for Young People
• By midnight the wind had further increased to such an extent that sail was still further reduced, the courses being taken off the ship, the jib stowed, and the mizen brailed in, leaving nothing set but the three double-reefed topsails and the fore and main-topmast staysails. —  A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
• The colony became enfeebled and reduced, and the adventurers returned to England, (1586,) bringing with them some knowledge of the country, and also that singular weed, which rapidly enslaved the courtiers of Queen Elizabeth, and which soon became one of the great staple commodities in the trade of the civilized world. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• He was now in precisely the same situation as that to which I had been reduced, and in which I had been only half an hour before. —  Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk

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