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– She presently perceiv'd it, but bore it as she had always done; it being but what she expected, she had prepar'd herself for it, and had another Project in embrio, which she soon ripen'd into Action.
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze, Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition 1725
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Bush would rather veto an America embrio than veto a Palestinian TRUE
Think Progress » Bush on Stem Cell Veto: ‘These Boys and Girls Are Not Spare Parts’ 2006
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I have been so long accustomed to that original, that I know all the caprices of her heart, and can often perceive her designs while they are yet in embrio — She attached herself to Lismahago for no other reason but that she despaired of making a more agreeable conquest.
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Standard spellings in this book include: bason, judgment, embrio, volcanos (plural), potatoe (singular)
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The substance of the seed is thus softened, sweetened, and converted into a sort of white milky pulp, fit for the nourishment of the embrio plant.
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Seeds, besides the embrio plant, contain (as we have already observed) fecula, oil, and a little mucilage.
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These form the basis of all the vegetable perfumes, and are contained, more or less, in every part of the plant excepting the seed; they are, at least, never found in that part of the seed which contains the embrio plant.
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_Possibilities are infinite, or great events in embrio: A bishop's dinner and a dean's devotion: A discovery: Clerical conversation: The way to rise in the church_
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777
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Here then we see new coalitions in embrio which after France shall in turn have suffered a just punishment for her crimes, will not only raise her from the earth on which she is prostrate, but give her an opportunity to establish a government of as much liberty as she can bear, enough to ensure her happiness and prosperity.
Letters 1760
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Hare-is (50-182-1) PATHETIC!!! if you ask me ... its time to send this ZIM-wanker back to where his embrio have been made.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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