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Restraint often operating against something that itself exercises a restraining force

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  • Every check and countercheck is used, which slowness of proceeding, or a repetition of it in other stages and under different forms, can effect.
  • Also, as we were rowing into a very great sound lying south-west from whence these whales came, upon the sudden there came a violent countercheck of a tide from the...
  • Oh no that was painful always good to countercheck the address.
  • But while this game of check and countercheck was being played, the
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