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For as the Diligent-hand maketh Rich, whil'st the Slothful and Prodigal come to nothing, so the Use of our Powers improves and Encreases them, and the most Observing and Considerate is the Wisest Person: For she lays up in her Mind as in a Store-house, ready to produce on all Occasions, a Clear and Simple Idea of every Object that has at any time presented itself.
Mary Astell Sowaal, Alice 2008
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He Builds himself a Store-house and a Pantry, to lay up the remainder of his Provision in: and made a Door to it of Canes twisted together, to prevent any of the Beasts getting in, during his absence.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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Church and so of the Store-house, a stable for our horses, a munition house, a Powder house, a new well for the amending of the most unwholesome water which the old afforded.
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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This afternoone all our Prize Goodes being landed, I went to the Store-house to see equall divisions made; And the Lordes fiftes [17] wer first layde aside; and then my dues as Admirall, and
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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Store-house, where I and the Supercargo of the _Delight_ took it by turns weekly during the sale of 'em. 28th March came in a Portugee frigate, with news that Five stout French Ships had attempted Rio
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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_ -- I stumbled lately at a book-stall on a very curious old book entitled _A Treasurie or Store-house of Similes both pleasant, delightfull, and profitable_.
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Robert Cawdray, the author of _A Treasurie or Store-house of Similes_, was
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There can be no doubt as to the authorship of the _Store-house of
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The different kinds of electricity collected and concentrated are stored ready for use in a large building called "The Electric Store-house," -- the electricities, secured in non-conducting pouches, being placed in separate compartments.
Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah Benjamin Lumley 1843
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Fiction cannot invent, and which Narrative takes with diffidence from the great Store-house of Real Life, his steps had ascended in the social ladder -- that all which his childhood had lost -- all which the robbers of his heritage had gained, the grandeur and the power of WEALTH -- above all, the hourly and the tranquil happiness of a stainless name, became palpable and distinct.
Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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