to keep the municipal physicians and police in good humor, and to buy a gold crown for every _ _ _ king; nothing was overlooked that could fatten the state. [3 Letters; N _ _]

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Here, eremitically sealed from the rest of the world, Buddhism developed into a maze of superstitions, monasticism and ecclesiasticism rivaled only by early _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Europe; [8 Letters; M _ _ _ _ _ _ L]

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It should have been the most _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ battle in modern history, but the exhaustion of the rowers, the damaged condition of the victorious fleet, [8 Letters; D _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

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We have no evidence of _ _ _ _ _ _ relations, and we hear of no complaint from Mrs. Knox; we hardly hear of her at all. [6 Letters; S _ _ _ _ L]

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Would their advance, as in 1792, arouse the _ _ _ _ _ _ people to heroic resistance? [6 Letters; F _ _ _ _ H]

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Some women worked in shops or factories, especially in the textile trades; some became lawyers and doctors; some became politically powerful; the wives of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ governors reviewed and addressed troops. [10 Letters; P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ L]

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This went sorely against his grain, for he had long been accustomed to _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ rule, and felt that an able and well-intentioned dictator like himself was better for a country than a parlement of palaver and a count of noses whether of voters or of deputies. [8 Letters; A _ _ _ _ _ _ E]

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"18 His _ _ _ _ _ _ _ brother the Comte d’Artois, taking his wife and mistress with him, led the first group of émigrés out of France. [7 Letters; Y _ _ _ _ _ R]

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that parents should give their children to each other with prudence and _ _ _ _ will, without their own preliminary engagement (a)   . [4 Letters; G _ _ _]

Nothing is known of his antecedents; apparently he was an ex-soldier, for he disciplined the disorderly horde into _ _ _ _ _ _ action, and won its quick obedience to his commands. [6 Letters; U _ _ _ _ D]

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at the _ _ _ _ time he tried to comfort the conservatives by making Marcus Brutus governor of Cisalpine Gaul, assuring Cicero and Atticus that he would abet no war against property, [4 Letters; S _ _ _]

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He was unprepossessing ; glaring _ _ _ _ eyes in a white face mixed with rough blotches of fiery red, "like a mulberry sprinkled over with flour. [4 Letters; B _ _ _]

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Francis declared that he would behead his _ _ _ children if he found them harboring these blasphemous heresies. [3 Letters; O _ _]

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He did his best to cleanse the papal administration of venality and delay; he banished his esurient nephews to Siena; he reduced the _ _ _ _ _ _ debt. [6 Letters; P _ _ _ _ C]

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Nevertheless the Oresteia is greater still ; by common consent the finest achievement in _ _ _ _ _ drama, perhaps in all drama. [5 Letters; G _ _ _ K]

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The revival of antiquity brought with it a renewed acquaintance with _ _ _ _ _ _ _ drama. [7 Letters; C _ _ _ _ _ C]

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Looking far ahead, he expressed the fear that the decline of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ belief would plunge the world into a chaos of conduct and ideas. [9 Letters; C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ N]

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Giuliano da Sangallo began as a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ engineer in the Florentine army; passed to the service of Ferrante of Naples; [8 Letters; M _ _ _ _ _ _ Y]

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Since many monks and nuns now left their convents, and the public seemed unwilling to support the remainder, the Lutheran princes suppressed all monasteries in their territory except a few whose inmates had embraced the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ faith. [10 Letters; P _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T]

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