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And side by side with those unostensible preparations that kept a stream of armed men passing quietly overseas, the normal business of a city waxed and throve in the old accustomed way.
Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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He was the second agent appointed to control all power ostensible and unostensible, and to head these gentlemen whose "custom," the Nabob says, "was in the end to ask for money."
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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