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Euler himself seemed to recognize this potential problem and introduced a new syntactic device,
Diagrams Shin, Sun-Joo 2008
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What's the point of safeguarding this putrid device,
Engaging in Bodhisattva Behavior - Shantideva ��� 5. Safeguarding with Alertness Shantideva 2004
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Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device,
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And so we've got a song that's just one of the many that we put on to this little device,
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Her cave was stored with scrolls of strange device,
Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley 1997
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Too, it often functions as an attention-garnering device,
Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986
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Called me Charly the Second; and, by way of device,
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Besides, on the Wall where he lieth, there was painted three Virgins crowned, one of which was named _Charity_, holding this device,
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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In swearing at their master's call to prop each foul device,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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To greet them on their journey/did friends lack no device,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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