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The lengths were calculated according to the empirical rules of the trade.

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Enemy officers suffered harsh reprisals.

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That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.

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Low fecundity makes bird species vulnerable to decline.

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Among boys there are laws of honour and chivalrous codes, not written, or formally taught, but intuitively understood by all, and invariably acted upon by the loyal and the true.

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To accomplish this, the regiment can operate over a beach or through a port.

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The dilapidated cabin stood at the edge of the lake.

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I fluctuated between wishing he was back home and wishing I'd never met him.

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Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.

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I amused myself by thinking that in his choice of books he showed pleasantly the irreconcilable sides of his fantastic nature.