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Causing hindrance.

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  • Co-operation between the two great fighting services is the master-key opening every impeditive doorway on the path to victory.
  • With good faculties, and fine instincts, Letty was always thinking she must be wrong, just because it was she was in it -- a lovely fault, no doubt, but a fault greatly...
  • He was indeed victorious in Persia, but withal so far distant from Macedonia, his hereditary kingdom, that the joy of the one did not expel the extreme grief which through...
  • Macedonia, his hereditary kingdom, that the joy of the one did not expel the extreme grief which through occasion of the other he had inwardly conceived; for, not being able...
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