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"ref": "2003, Nancy McKenzie, Grail Prince, page 192:",
"text": "\"That it was Maximus's sword which Merlin found for Arthur and fixed in the stone of Lludyn's Hill by magic arts so that none but he who was rightwise born King of all the Britons could pull it out.\"",
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"text": "and doing so they say that they do it themselves rightwise and the Hellenes leftwise.",
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"ref": "2004, Christian P. Robert, George Casella, Monte Carlo statistical methods, page 336:",
"text": "Similarly, his \"doubling procedure\" consists in the same random starting interval […] whose length is doubled (leftwise or rightwise at random) recursively till both ends are outside the slice.",
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"ref": "1866, Specifications and drawings of patents relating to electricity issued by the United States from July 1, 1884, to July 1, 1885, volume 39, published by the United States Patent Office",
"text": "[…] that, abutting against the end of H, or nearly so, it will lock said bar as against a return or rightwise motion, and then said bar will be locked as against a reverse motion, and, being locked, its flop D cannot be rotated back, […]"
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"text": "The leftwise action aims at what drifts out of the nunka domain of the nefarious. Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.",
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"ref": "1966, P. H. Pott, Yoga and yantra: their interrelation and their significance for Indian archeology, page 66:",
"text": "In Tibet the compass points are described in a rightwise circle; one speaks there of east-south and west-north instead of south-east and north-west.",
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"ref": "2006, Steve Lawhead, The Silver Hand, page 20:",
"text": "Then he stepped before me, and I bade him walk three times in a rightwise circle around me. \"This is embarrassing,\" he growled through clenched teeth as he passed the first time.",
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