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Examples
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And the stockpiled mass destruction of the nuclear pow'rs that be
Twenty Tons of TNT 1967
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Noo the stane had great pow'rs that could dae such a thing
The Wee Magic Stane 1962
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And heav'n's protecting pow'rs are deaf to pray'rs.
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Here cease, ye pow'rs, and let your vengeance end:
The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil
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Enough to say that, when for hours each had extended all his pow'rs, toward the quiet evenfall O'Dowd succumbed to young McCall.
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Thy babe and Pleasure's, nursed the pow'rs of song!
Ode to Simplicity 1919
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Let them rally their heroes, send forth all their pow'rs, Their verse-men and prose-men, then match them with ours!
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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To him the church, the realm, their pow'rs consign.
English Satires Various 1885
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New pow'rs are claim'd, new pow'rs are still bestow'd,
English Satires Various 1885
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A hunter's shaft has struck, and quell'd its pow'rs;
The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834
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