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• They may carry nitrogen, phosphoric acid, or potash,--any one or two or the three,--and the three are the constituents that usually are lacking in available forms in our soils. —  Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement
• The survivors had both asserted that when they did affix their names the three were then present, as was also Sir Joseph; but there had been a terrible doubt even then as to the identity of the document; and a doubt also as to there having been any signature made by one of the reputed witnesses--by that one, namely, who at the time of that trial was dead. —  Orley Farm
• But the last of the three is the essential of Miltonic blank verse. —  Milton
• "You've scared the wits out of him, J. C. That won't get us anywhere," he reproved when the three were alone I don't trust anybody Wait," commanded Podmore with upraised hand. —  Every Man for Himself
• The centre of the three was a short, portly gentleman, with a somewhat rubicund countenance--Doctor McCrab, just appointed surgeon to one of the forts in the west. —  The Frontier Fort Stirring Times in the N-West Territory of British America

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