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` ` We'll give them the metal our mountain affords,
The Waverley 1877
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Majesty to grant unto your colony such enlargements as comprehend the whole island, thereby opening a way for us, as we hope, from our present bondage, to such liberties and enlargements as your patent affords,
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam 1841
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When I with an acquaintance meet he scarce a bow affords,
The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems Various 1818
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All thofe tender words The momentary trembling blifs affords,
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[p. 87], a very excellent one upon this subject: -- 'In contradiction to those, who, having a wife and children, prefer domestick enjoyments to those which a tavern affords,
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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1880: The sweet degrees that this breefe world affords,
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