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Eternity, the various sentence past, Assigns the sever’d throng distinct abodes, Sulphureous, or ambrosial.

From Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes by Young, Edward

How the Director Assigns the Cast It frequently happens that members of the regular stock company are used to fill in in certain scenes, although they may not be cast in the picture at all.

From Writing the Photoplay by Esenwein, J. Berg (Joseph Berg)

While to the racer swift and strong, Inexorable fate Assigns the weight, the spur, the thong, The choking struggle sharp and long, The owner wins the plate.

From A Century of Emblems by Cautley, G. S.

Andrew Millar, his Ex'ors Adm'ors or Assigns for ever And I do hereby covenant to & with the s'd.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.

But then they are old Friends; and are not their Children, Executors and Assigns, as little to be depended on as your own Kith and Kin? 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by Wright, William Aldis