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Sinus duo sunt maiores, vastque; alter is, qui S. Laurentij gurges; alter, qui Francius appellatur.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSThe Federal Reserve Board reserves the right to add to, alter, or amend these regulations.
READINGS IN MONEY AND BANKINGCHESTER ARTHUR PHILLIPSCert alter nostrm magnam itineris partem ger, debilitatsque iacuit.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSNam neque id diu fuit, & semper altero decumbente, alter stetit.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSErgo statim ex Aquitania euocatus Sacerdos vnus, alter ex ipsa Francia desumptus.
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND ALLIED DOCUMENTS, VOL. II: ACADIA, 1612-1614VARIOUSIts ultimate effect will not fall upon them, but will serve merely to alter the direction of human effort.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKBut the knife and the thin, dirty fingers of the killer did not permit his body to alter its position.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSEven in the same scene, time will alter every form, and render the exquisite polish of last year, obsolete rudeness next year.
THE LADIES' BOOK OF ETIQUETTE, AND MANUAL OF POLITENESSFLORENCE HARTLEYI alter the wintred of the old copies to windred, to make the form agree with that in l. 1020.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERI alter pleyneth in l. 2302 to pleyeth, to suit the context more closely.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERWORDS RELATED TO ALTER
- altering
- angling
- belying
- bending
- biasing
- buckling
- changing
- collapsing
- coloring
- conning
- contorting
- crushing
- curving
- deceiving
- declining
- deteriorating
- deviating
- disfiguring
- doctoring
- faking
- fudging
- garbling
- gnarling
- knotting
- lying
- making out like
- mangling
- melting
- misconstruing
- misinterpreting
- misrepresenting
- misshaping
- perverting
- phony up
- putting one on
- sagging
- scamming
- slanting
- slumping
- snowing
- torturing
- trumping up
- twisting
- warping
- whitewashing
- winding
- wrenching
- writhing
- adapt
- alter
- amplify
- analyze
- annotate
- arrange
- assemble
- assign
- blue pencil
- boil down
- butcher
- censor
- check
- choose
- compile
- compose
- condense
- correct
- cut
- delete
- discard
- doctor
- draft
- emend
- excise
- feature
- fine-tune
- finish
- fly speck
- go over
- make up
- massage
- polish
- prepare
- prescribe
- proofread
- publish
- put together
- rearrange
- recalibrate
- rectify
- redact
- regulate
- rehash
- rephrase
- report
- revise
- scrub
- select
- set up
- strike out
- style
- tighten
- trim
- write over
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