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... perhaps , the saying " to have one's knife in " a person . In political slang , to " knife " any one is to endeavour to defeat a candidate of one's own party in a secret or underhand way . " Knife " has always been synonymous for sword ...
... perhaps , the saying " to have one's knife in " a person . In political slang , to " knife " any one is to endeavour to defeat a candidate of one's own party in a secret or underhand way . " Knife " has always been synonymous for sword ...
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... perhaps I may call attention to Rex v . Bigg in 1717 , where a prisoner was indicted for rasing out an en- dorsement on a bank bill ( a felony by an Act of 1697 ) . The jury found that since 1696 " the way that was only used was to ...
... perhaps I may call attention to Rex v . Bigg in 1717 , where a prisoner was indicted for rasing out an en- dorsement on a bank bill ( a felony by an Act of 1697 ) . The jury found that since 1696 " the way that was only used was to ...
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... perhaps it would not be safe So much , however , in speech - craft depends to say of any solecism that it will never become tolerated as grammatical even by good writers . The word than " itself seems to furnish an instance of custom ...
... perhaps it would not be safe So much , however , in speech - craft depends to say of any solecism that it will never become tolerated as grammatical even by good writers . The word than " itself seems to furnish an instance of custom ...
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