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  • Pro perly navigate Tibet's troublesome relationship with the Chinese government?

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  • I am a young man; and as Emily is so well grown for her years, I think I cannot so pro-perly be her introducer to them, as 1 might, were I fifteen or twenty years olden

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Their is your mijo, perly whites and all, pointing to you.

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  • Arrangements should be made to launch the ANC Free South Africa Fund pro perly, as detailed in the 1986 Fundraising Workshop report.

    DOCUMENTS OF THE OSLO CONFERENCE 1989

  • ¶ Whiche is callid p {ro} perly {the} tyme of pylgremage

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  • By the time hed coaxed that horse up to the battery he was so sore hed have found rust on the perly gates an put Saint Peter under arrest for not bein shaved.

    "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933

  • Data mining techniques facil - and lawmakers become more aware and concerned itate the evaluation of spontaneous reports by about the potential for data mining, if used impro - using statistical methods to detect potential sig - perly, to violate the privacy rights of individuals.

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  • And she never forgot to urge upon me, that the science I was learning, was a science pro-perly called of defence, and not of offence; at the same time endeavouring to caution me against the low company into which a dexterity at my weapons might lead me, as well as against the diversions themselves exhibited at the infamous places where those brutal people resorted: infamous even by name *, as well as in the nature of them.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The religion that I profess, right worshipful master, is the same whereof the Lord Christ is the Author and Teacher, and which is therefore pro - perly and truly called the Christian religion, like as the professors thereof are also named Christians.

    The fathers of the English Church; or, A selection from the writings of the ... 1812

  • The observation, therefore, is very pro*, perly and cautiously worded, 'directing us to expect rain in the old and in the new, and not at the old or new; because experience shews that these changes of the weather happen not exactly at the change of the moon, but a day or

    The Complete Weather Guide: A Collection of Practical Observations for Prognosticating the ... Joseph Taylor, John Claridge 1812

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