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lay down the law

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The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

PHYSIOLOGY OF THE OPERAJOHN H. SWABY (AKA "SCRICI")

I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.

So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.

A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

To Harrison and his wife there was no distinction between the executive and judicial branches of the law.

THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN

The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985