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The highest possable compression could theoreticly yeald a working bomb with only 2-400 grams of ploot.
N Moderation James Killus 2007
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This would yeald me an anual interest of 36 pounds subject to no taxes: and be some thing to leave in the hand of a Friend for the support of our Sons.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 January 1784 1993
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It may not be to the Credit of my country but it is a certain fact, that no articles are so vendible or yeald a greater profit.
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Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field, for the pastures of the Wilderness do spring, the Tree beareth her fruit, the vine and the olive yeald their fruit increase.
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Grass will not yeald half so great a crop as last year.
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They Report 2800 Sheaves at the last and before 2700 the first cleaning up, the next 2600 in all. 8100 sheaves. which averages about 3 Bushel of wheat to the hundred sheaves which is considered a poor yeald.
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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_Dear Sir: _ Replying to your letter dates Oct. 6th the situation here is this: Heavy rains and Boll weavel has caused a loss of about 9,000 bales of cotton which together with seed at the prevailing high prices would have brought $900,000.00 the average crop here being 11,000 bales, but this years 'crop was exceptionally fine and abundant and promised good yeald until the two calamities hit us.
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That never yeald (from yeare to yeare) but leaues:
The Bride Samuel Rowlands
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Codfishing is to him a "sport"; "and what sport doth yeald a more pleasing content, and lesse hurt or charge then angling with a hooke, and crossing the sweete ayre from Isle to Isle, over the silent streams of a calme Sea?"
The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907
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It was ordered in 1631: "That there bee a uniformitie throughout this colony both in substance and circumstance to the cannons and constitutions of the church of England as neere as may bee, and that every person yeald readie obedience unto them uppon penaltie of the paynes and forfeitures in that case appoynted."
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903
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