amain

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He would seize a rope end in his strong young teeth and pull amain.

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To assist this second hope, the Press of the land last week got behind the market and shoved amain.

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Aias, from The Iliad In Toledo last week, a group of U.S. wrestlers strove amain, using some of the classic grips of Homer's time.

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Production of electricity proceeds amain with new needs demanding more power and excess power stimulating new needs.

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I care not for Spring; on his fickle wing Let the blossoms and buds be borne: He woos them amain with his treacherous rain, And he scatters them ere the morn.

From The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens by Dickens, Charles