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And therefore he would still his blacke burnt men defend,
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And for to have revenge for himself, for to defend,
Jack Tar 1997
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And the joys of home that we treasure so are the joys that their lives defend,
Over Here 1920
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Thy Church from false apostles for evermore defend,
The Hymnal [of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA] 1920
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Your heav'n-granted rights to preserve and defend,
The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892
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For thus he thinks in his distress: God cannot me defend,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Wherefore it is no sin at all a man for to defend,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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How Thought is impotent to divine the secret which the gods defend,
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855
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This second person Catulus Lutatius [680] the censor came forward to defend,
Plutarch's Lives Volume III. 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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Eliza had confessed to me, though most reluctantly, the name of her lover; and when he returned to town, which was within a fortnight after myself, we met by appointment, he to defend,
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1833
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