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  • If you're looking for technobabble explanations for all the questions the series raies, you'll be disappointed.

    TV: Lost douglascohen 2010

  • Carrot of Tobacco - this Nation rove in the Plains above this and trade with the British Companes on the Ossinniboin River, they are Divided into Several bands, the decendants of the Sioux & Speak nearly their langguage a bad disposed Set & Can raies about moo men in the 3 bands near this place, they trade with the nations of this neighbourhood for horses Corn & Snow all Day Capt.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • But now there is no reason so probable to salve this appearance, as to place an orbe of thicker aire, neere the body of that Planet, which may be enlightened by the reflected beames, and through which the direct raies may easily penetrate.

    The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet John Wilkins 1643

  • DArke is the day, when Phoebus face is shrowded, and weaker sights may wander soone astray: but when they see his glorious raies vnclowded, with steddy steps they keepe the perfect way,

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • The whiche had on the sides certaine hookes, so that not onely thei served to open with their violence the bandes, but also to kill with the hookes the adversaries: against the violence of those, in thre maners thei provided, either thei sustained theim with the thickenesse of the raies, or thei received theim betwene the bandes, as the Eliphantes were received, or els thei made with arte some strong resistence: As Silla a

    Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

  • They are anxious to collect a great many people and preachers, and achieve, if the expression may be allowed, a great deal of religion at once, that they may lie by, and be exempt from its raies and duties until the regular récurrence of the period for replen - ishing the stock.

    De la philosophie de la nature 1770

  • And thus much will our Selenites do, if obverted to the raies of the Moon in right angles; which if all that is really in - tended by the name, (for the very fame reafon) I know not why it may not as well be called the Sun-Jione too, fince it equally re - prefents the one as well as the other.

    The natural history of Oxford-shire : being an essay toward the natural history of England 1677

  • I.] [Footnote 12: "Une ecriture consistant en raies tracées sur de petites planchettes."

    Aboriginal American Authors Daniel Garrison Brinton 1868

  • Etfi hoc exemplum non cthanrit latitudint m pto - bandae minoris; cum adh\] c reftent jura H mo« raies potentise, & multa aUa: refpbndebo ta« men.

    Christiani Weisii Doctrina logica: duabus partibus sic comprehensa,ut prior ... Christian Weise 1704

  • Bdt to have one more (hible and parmanent in bt9 cotours: Take a GlafTe full of wattr, and. cxpofe k to cbe Sunne, fo thacche raies that. pafle cbrough ftrike upon a (hadovred place » you will have pleafnre to fee the fine fonnc of a

    Mathematicall Recreations: Or, A Collection of Many Problemes, Extracted Out ... 1653

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