abortive
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Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay.
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Abortive stays at five prep schools and two colleges were transformed into a gilt-edged education at Groton and Yale.
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Abortive attempts to enliven her wardrobe were immediately crushed with scathing references to the fiery locks.
From The Heart of Arethusa by Fox, Frances Barton
Child-bed 189 Child-bed 625 Abortive and still-born 458 Abortive and still-born 617 - —— —— - 647 1242 This inequality, I say, is exceedingly augmented when the numbers of people are considered.
From A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Defoe, Daniel
Has not a great many both good and bad Designs been render'd Abortive in this our Lower World, for want of the Harmony of Parties, and the Unanimity of those concern'd in the Design?
From The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon by Defoe, Daniel
Vocabulary lists containing abortive
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., "Beyond Vietnam" (1967)
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And Then There Were None
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