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  • Encroachments by the locals staying in Mahipalpur had occupied the way, 10 am office hours highly crowdy, 1pm school hours space less, 5 pm employees of Gurgaon MNCs coming back home.

    Mahipalpur to Gurgaon (NIghtmare into Fantasy) 2008

  • Encroachments continued, however, and the conquest of the Susquehannock by the Iroquois in 1675 only brought down upon the Piscataway a more cruel and persistent enemy.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Encroachments by the locals staying in Mahipalpur had occupied the way, 10 am office hours highly crowdy, 1pm school hours space less, 5 pm employees of Gurgaon MNCs coming back home.

    Mahipalpur to Gurgaon (NIghtmare into Fantasy) 2008

  • Keen of St. John's Merchant to examine whether any Person or Persons have made any Encroachments on his said Room called Paradice; and after carefully examining the same finds that Willm.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Coombs and Partner Tenants to Barbary Murphy have made great Encroachments on the said Room of the said Willm Keen, by Building a Fish Flake on the Westward part adjoining the run of Water mentioned by [previous deponent] Wm. Bailey with a small Studded House or Platform and a small Garden adjoining the Stage Occupied by Willm.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • History of the greater Motions and Perturbations in Earth and Sea; Earthquakes, Tremblings and Yawnings of the Earth, Islands newly appearing; Floating Islands; Breakings off of Land by entrance of the Sea, Encroachments and Inundations and contrariwise

    Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History 2005

  • History of the greater Motions and Perturbations in Earth and Sea; Earthquakes, Tremblings and Yawnings of the Earth, Islands newly appearing; Floating Islands; Breakings off of Land by entrance of the Sea, Encroachments and Inundations and contrariwise

    Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History 2005

  • Foreign Encroachments and Territorial Changes, 1580-1800.

    7. Foreign Encroachments and Territorial Changes, 1580-1800 2001

  • Foreign Encroachments and Territorial Changes, 1580–1800 1777

    1777 2001

  • In 1759, when he first took his seat in the House of Burgesses, the speaker thanked him on behalf of the colony for his “brave and steady Behaviour” and the distinguished military services he had rendered “from the first Encroachments and Hostilities of the French.”

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

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