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"text": "[…] That ſince that time he [Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus] was become the ſubject of King Henry [VIII] of England, his Majeſty's [James V of Scotland's] greateſt enemy; and was now the cauſe of all the Inroads made by the English into Scotland: […]",
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"ref": "1683, Samuel Annesley, “The Chamber of Imagery in the Church of Rome Laid Open; or An Antidote against Popery. […] Sermon X.”, in A Continuation of Morning-Exercise Questions and Cases of Conscience, Practically Resolved by Sundry Ministers, in October, 1682, London: […] J. A. for John Dunton […], →OCLC, page 221",
"text": "Whence is it that ſo many corrupt Opinions have made ſuch an Inroad on Proteſtant Religion, and the Profeſſion of it? Is it not from hence, that many have loſt an Experience of the power and efficacy of the Truth, and ſo have parted with it?",
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"ref": "2009, Marcia Pointon, “Fault Lines and Points of Light”, in Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, New Haven, Conn., London: […] [F]or the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, part 1 (Stories Touching Stones), page 19, column 1",
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"ref": "1792, Joseph Emin, The Life and Adventures of Joseph Émïn, an Armenian. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 358",
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"ref": "1982, Kamala Markandaya [pseudonym; Kamala Purnaiya], chapter 26, in Shalimar (A Cornelia & Michael Bessie Book), 1st U.S. edition, New York, N.Y., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Harper & Row, page 167",
"text": "All about the dreaming sea-board, but tucked well out of sight, lurked those guardians of the environment—filters, slurpers, booms, vacuums, ultramodern aids to deal with the very latest imperishables. All ruinously expensive to mount, and inroading sizeably into profit margins, but part of the small print that nearly drove Boyle barmy.",
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"text": "The kyngdom of Heven be Chriſt, 'teys reſembled to this noble kyng / With riches inroded mercy for to lern, and to have compaſſion. / One of another, after goddes Faſſyon.",
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"ref": "2012, Peter Tschmuck, “The Digital Music Revolution”, in Creativity and Innovation in the Music Industry, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →DOI, page 194",
"text": "Furthermore, what initially was the main domain of record labels—the financing of music productions—was also inroaded by business outsiders.",
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"ref": "2019, Everisto Benyera, “Borders and the Coloniality of Human Mobility: A View from Africa”, in Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, editors, African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration (Border Regions Series), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge",
"text": "[I]n June 2008, the Ras Doumeirah incident happened. Eritrean forces inroaded the Ras Doumeirah principality, a strategic place at the narrowest crossing point to the Gulf of Aden at the strait of Babeal Mendeb.",
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"ref": "1537, David Scott, “Papers Illustrative of the Trial of Jonet Lady Glammys. I. Narrative Taken from the History of Scotland, by David Scott of the Inner Temple.”, in [Robert Pitcairn, compiler], Criminal Trials and Other Proceedings before the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland, part IX (Trials during the Reigns of King James the Fourth and Fifth), [Edinburgh]: Printed at the Bannatyne Club Press by Ballantyne and Co., published 1831, →OCLC, page 192",
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"text": "Whence is it that ſo many corrupt Opinions have made ſuch an Inroad on Proteſtant Religion, and the Profeſſion of it? Is it not from hence, that many have loſt an Experience of the power and efficacy of the Truth, and ſo have parted with it?",
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"ref": "2009, Marcia Pointon, “Fault Lines and Points of Light”, in Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery, New Haven, Conn., London: […] [F]or the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, part 1 (Stories Touching Stones), page 19, column 1",
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"ref": "2011, Mark Freedland, Nicola Kountouris, “The Termination and Transformation of Employment Contracts”, in The Legal Construction of Personal Work Relations, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, page 224",
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"ref": "2005, Yiannis Gabriel, “Foreword”, in Ian Cutler, Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, pages 2–3",
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"text": "The kyngdom of Heven be Chriſt, 'teys reſembled to this noble kyng / With riches inroded mercy for to lern, and to have compaſſion. / One of another, after goddes Faſſyon.",
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"ref": "2019, Everisto Benyera, “Borders and the Coloniality of Human Mobility: A View from Africa”, in Inocent Moyo, Christopher Changwe Nshimbi, editors, African Borders, Conflict, Regional and Continental Integration (Border Regions Series), Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge",
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