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"Expedients of all time and nations collected with research, selected with judgment, and skilfully arranged and described."
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Expedients for abbreviation vainly spread their allurements; every one of his 2,108 equations was separately and resolutely solved.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 Various
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Expedients were adopted to civilize them, and privileges were granted to the Portuguese who should contract marriage among them.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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Material things to the Martians are but Expedients.
The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation J. L. Kennon
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He was a Master of Expedients; the greatest probably the world has ever seen.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 Ian Hamilton 1900
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Expedients which looked simple beforehand were found lamentably deficient to cope with wild nature on the stupendous scale of this gloomy land.
The Captain of the Kansas Louis Tracy 1895
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Expedients have been invented to overcome the difficulty of making a fresh start in each panel, one of which is shown in Fig. 34, where the beginning of the bough is hidden under a leaf.
Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship George Jack 1894
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Expedients more odd than this are born of the East Side crowding.
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Expedients for housing them at Durham, Citeaux, and elsewhere.
The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871
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Expedients not grounded in nature are anomalies, accepted under protest if at all, but not destined
The Conservative. 1869
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