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... needs of the Departments and of the Government have been cut to the quick, so to speak, and any assumption on the part of Congress, so often made in times past, that the estimates have been prepared with the expectation that they may be reduced, will result in ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... in advance, and then their cavalry, who had been hidden by a projection of the fort, charged suddenly down on him. They were upon our men before they had time to form, and in a minute twenty-six of them were cut to pieces. Clive and the other three managed to get through the Tanjore horsemen and rejoin the Sepoys. That was almost as narrow a shave for his life as with ...

— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty

... the same conventionalization in treatment, again charming. These groups are not for people who look for realism in art above all else; but for those who care for the classic, who see in formalization a short-cut to the expression of the spirit of a thing, there are few more appealing groups in the grounds. The figures are repeated at the east and west entrances to ...

— An Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition • Shelden Cheney

... scorchers scorch With hanging purple heads, But O for the tube that is busted up And the tyre that is cut to shreds. ...

— Mr. Punch Awheel - The Humours of Motoring and Cycling • J. A. Hammerton

... the leg where he suspected the mortification had touched it; in a word, he cut off a great deal of mortified flesh, in all which the poor fellow felt no pain. William proceeded till he brought the vessels which he had cut to bleed, and the man to cry out; then he reduced the splinters of the bone, and, calling for help, set it, as we call it, and bound it up, and laid the man to rest, who found ...

— The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton • Daniel Defoe

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