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The occasion should be seized also to increase the balances of depositors who carry unprofitable accounts.
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They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.
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It was little better than coal dust, and would not carry a ball fifty paces to kill or wound.
The text of the amendments designed to carry out these recommendations will be submitted by the Board at an early date.
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The Professor, passing benevolently on, was glad he had now enough money to carry out his projects.
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A view of the duchess's ball-room, or of the dining-table of the earl, will supersede all occasion for lengthy fiddle-faddle.
You never know when you are going to stumble upon a jewel in the most out-of-the-way corner.
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A quite young child will, for example, pretend to do something, as to take an empty cup and carry out the semblance of drinking.
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He had not the least idea what wadding was, and his notion of a bullet was a dockyard cannon-ball bigger than his own head.
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