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It was at the March Assizes to the bar we did repair,
Henry the Poacher 1999
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R500,000 was for replacing public telephones damaged beyond repair,
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Our states they are indebted to keep them in repair,
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See also Drivers, Fuel and lubricants, Maintenance and repair,
Chapter 16 1989
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And when the siege is over, we to the town repair,
English Songs and Ballads Various
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This was a country house of Dr. Sheridan's, where Swift and some of his friends spent a summer in the year 1725, and being in very bad repair,
Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell Anonymous
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They're to come o'er the sea and to Portsmouth repair,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 22, 1891 Various
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But when they went to find him he was bust beyond repair,
The Glory of the Trenches Coningsby Dawson 1921
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In this year of 1764, when he had lost his entire patrimony except the old house in Purchase Street, now somewhat rusty for want of repair,
The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England Carl Lotus Becker 1909
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To be judged for her crime, her one fault to repair,
The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins Brampton, Henry H 1904
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