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Even without the cars as evidence, you can tell it aint 'merca.
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We here in ‘merca are safe until our gov’t decides to do us in again :
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Separated from his nearest neighbor by a journey of half a day, visited only rarely at his _hato_ or farm-house by some casual traveller, or by the itinerant Galician peddler, whom he contemptuously denominates the _merca-chifles_, the silent horseman lives wrapt up in ignorance of all but the care of the roving beasts that are intrusted to his vigilance.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Addimus & hic integram donationis chartam, qiiaan idem comes ad altare S. Maximini obtulit. in nomine fiin€t« & individuae Trinitatis. quoniam omni homini neceflarium efle pernoCbi - tur, ut in hac vita pofitus, de futuris pie medite - tur, & rebus tranfitoriis lucra aeternae vitae merca - ri conetur; S.cra exhortante firriptura: honora dominum de tua fiibftantia: itemque: ficut aqusi
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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