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The greenhouses also provided other benefits of water control, such as reduced leaching of fertilizer, less washing-off of insecticides, fewer cases of crop diseases, and easier weed control.
Chapter 15 1982
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But a proselyte was baptized not only into the washing-off of that Gentile pollution, nor only thereby to be transplanted into the religion of the Jews; but that by the most accurate rite of translation that could possibly be, he might so pass into an Israelite, that, being married to an Israelite woman, he might produce a free and legitimate seed, and an undefiled offspring.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The dissolving action is long, but not only, as said above, the half tints are best preserved, but blistering and local washing-off are avoided.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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The same gusto presided over the public execution of the carbon tax and the attendant washing-off of the green coating Dion applied to his party over his two years in office.
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