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  • Suppose us there, then ent'ring thou the town, 370

    The Odyssey of Homer 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1765

  • We were, as all the World imagined then, just ent'ring on the ways that promised to lead to such a Peace, as would have answered all the Prayers of our religious Queen, the Care and Vigilance of a most able Ministry, the Payments of a willing and obedient People, as well as all the glorious Toils and Hazards of the

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Begun to be collected by Thomas Prince upon his ent'ring Harvard-College July 6 1703, and was given by said Prince, to remain therein forever. "

    Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • "These hairs were brown, when, full of hope, ent'ring these holy lists,

    Tales of the Chesapeake George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • But this I believe you'll hardly think those to be, who are so far from ent'ring into the Sense and Spirit of the Ancients, that they don't yet understand their Language with any [Exactness.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

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