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  • We should have written 'as' in both places probably, but at all events in the latter, transplacing the sentences

    The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge 1820

  • But the thing or matter is: The reforming of the Fruit of one Tree with the fruit of another, by an artificial transplacing or transposing of a twig, bud or leafe, (commonly called a Graft) taken from one tree of the same, or some other kind, and placed or put to, or into another tree in due time and manner. "

    The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

  • It was endeavor’d no needless Alterations shou’d be admitted in this Edition, and as little of any as cou’d consist with the design of making it plain and useful; to shun the offence it might give to some; and only the Roman and Italic Character alternately made use of, where transplacing of Words cou’d be avoided.

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

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