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And every glance hath archery: Her liplets twain old wine contain,
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And scarce the meshy toils the copious draught contain,
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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When groups of lines in a picture occur parallel to each other they produce an accentuation of the particular quality the line may contain,
The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed
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According to the scriptures of these cults and the measure of knowledge they contain,
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Have you of God, the world, and all it doth contain,
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Jerome as to ourselves, on Psalm 44; and this allusion, isolated though it is, suggests that the Homilies contained, or were meant to contain,
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The earlier books of this treatise, written some time ago, contain,
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Have you of God, the world, and all it doth contain,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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Was sooth -- and he, whom worlds could not contain,
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To these publications the reader is referred: -- the present Essay may be found to contain,
The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands Charles Butler 1791
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