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  • The pleasant Indian idea of taking old people to the river bank and leaving them for the tide, is overstrictly carried out by our celibate Brahmins.

    Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

  • If the condition regarding wives and children in clause (c) of the letter is not overstrictly enforced the concession should work well.

    PART IV 1927

  • To cite a familiar case; it is traditional that some of the children brought up overstrictly, overcarefully, throw off as soon as possible and as completely as possible conventional morals and manners.

    The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914

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