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  • Ai thot uv yew tother dae, had red yor blog & wuz thinkin hao nyc ett iz tew hab frenz awn soe manee pafs awl wurkin hour whey up teh mountin…

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  • Hath it come to pafs yt a fart fhall fart itfelfe?

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Hath it come to pafs yt a fart fhall fart itfelfe?

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • This was the place where the Dutch fleet, under command of thdr admiral Stephen Van der Hagen, lay at anchor, when the day afterwards they crofTed the bay and took the Portuguefe Jfort. fYom this inlet to the Kaaimans Point, there is again no anchorage, except upon the edge of the before-mentioned fand, yet, in cafe of need, one might anchor near the pafs, clofe to the Matta-paflb.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • When we came near the ful tan's houfe, the fultan and his men met - us, and we wheeled oflF to let them pafs.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • The 3 1 ft, in the forenoon, we fhot in between two iflands, lying about four leagues afunder, with intention to pafs between them.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • Kent's Bay is far from offering thofe advantages which might be expeded from its fize and pofition: in hOiy a fand-bank,. which has fcarcely enough water on it to admit a boat to pafs, clofes the bay on the eaftem fide, and in this diredion occupies almoft half its extent.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • All the faitenings are on the infide, and pafs through kants or ridges, which are wrought on the edges and ends of the feveral boards which compofe the veflel, for that purpofe,

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • We then fteered north by weft, m order to pafs to leeward of the bank de la Plata, in latitude twenty degrees fitty-five minutes north.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

  • At the fame epoch, feveral convids, feeking to free themfelves from fiavery, endeavoured to pafs this formidable barrier: fome of thefe died in the undertaking, and the others were conftrained to abandon this fcheme of enfranchifement.

    Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

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