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Their executors were sourly wondering whether the two venerable testators were not even then grinning from those far-away sepulchres in contemplation of the first feud their unprimitive castle was to know.
The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Holy Table, which even then had begun by a false analogy to receive the unscriptural and unprimitive designation of ‘altar,’ stood in front of the apse, not against the wall, but in the middle of the chancel space.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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He saw much that was weak and bad in Antioch, much that he knew to be false in doctrine and unprimitive and unscriptural in practice.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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