use up

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So your flying column must start with fat horses, and use up their reserve of flesh, arriving at the end with skeletons.

This is an excellent way to use up old material which would otherwise show marks or any other defects.

But I mean to say that you can use up two or three cartridges without a trace being left in the barrels.

I was no use up there, I said, Rhoda Polly could see all round me.

Even the Celtic rule as to Easter was the Roman use up to the middle of the fifth century.

We use up tissue as an engine uses up fuel; and we therefore need constant coaling.

The truth is dead, a letter, a word, a material that I can use up.

And use up what strength you have so that you could not even ride?

Some seemed to have two and even three horses, as if they were on an errand which might use up one and call for another.

THE TALKING LEAVESWILLIAM O. STODDARD

The coming rainy day will never be able to use up all that some folks are salting down for it.

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