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• This term is usually applied to pure potash. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• Then he becomes abstract and inquisitive again, and writes two pages, full of curious, out-of-the-way learning, on the name of Paradise The name of Paradise is a name in Genesis which indicates a place of pleasure (_lieu voluptueux_): this term is Persian. —  Figures of Several Centuries
• Stimulated by certain alleged discoveries of her navigators on the north-west coast, Great Britain urged and maintained her title to a frontage on the Pacific, and made a bold claim to sovereignty, as far south as the mouth of the Columbia River, nearly, indeed, to the northern border of California OUR CLAIM TO THE OREGON COUNTRY Nothing had been done towards an adjustment during the ten years of joint occupancy, and when the term was about to expire, the arrangement was renewed by special convention in 1827, for an indefinite period,--each power reserving the right to terminate the convention by giving twelve-months' notice to the other. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• It usually flowers when eight or ten years old 3] The original has the word Mesquitas_, mosques; but as the term is applied in English exclusively to Mohammedan places of worship, one of more general application is used in the translation 4] The title invariably given to Muteczuma (or Montezuma) in these dispatches is simply Seńor, in its sense of Lord or (to use an Indian word) Cacique; which is also given to the chiefs or governors of districts or provinces, whether independent or feudatories. —  South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
• But the term was already threadbare,--and the journey only commenced. —  The Snowshoe Trail

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