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And, safe entrench'd within, her foes without defies.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes John Dryden 1665
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Confcience has got fafely entrench'd behind the letter of the law, fits there invulnerable, forti - fied with cafes and reports fa flrongly on all fides, that 'tis hot preach - ing can difpofTefs it of its hold.
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By break of day, entrench'd himfelf upon The Windmill-hill — our liberty was gone; s They from their trenches could ki) l ev'ry one That iffu'd forth, or entered Bifliop's-gate.
Derriana: A Collection of Papers Relative to the Siege of Derry, and Illustrative of the ... G. Douglas 1794
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