Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...purpure). This has as supporters two schooners, remplis. Above appears the crest, - a casque (argent), which seems to have some connection with the schooners beneath. Below the main device is found a chestnut (brun), which is bound with chains, evidently to prevent its being given away. The colors employed exhaust the resources of the spectrum, and makes this coat of arms rival the traditional coat of Joseph...
...classical subjects; and, secondly, to bring about an acquaintance and an interchange of experience between those interested in Philology, by having social meetings at different times during the year. Work of this sort is all that can be done in departments where the regular courses of lectures practically exhaust the subjects of study...
...hearty kiss resembles in principle nothing so much as the action by which the lump-sucker fish attaches itself to a stone, or that of the leather "suckers" with which urchins delight to lift pebbles. The lips of the kisser are pressed against those of the kissee, a slight exhaustion of air is caused by a "drawing" action on the part of the agent active, and the two actors in the farce are temporarily attached to each other by the pressure of the external air. The kisser ceases to exhaust the air within his mouth; the attachment is broken...
...sources of history you exhaust...