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draw off
1. That way they never have to draw off any mains water
2. When they found and asked him to produce his papers and could not, it would draw official eyes to the traveler who had passed through the gates under his name
3. His revised chart stated that he had been given the option to resume or withdraw off the sedative and chose to terminate the drug
4. Still deprived of precious intelligence information because of the changes to the Japanese codes, the American navy had fought two major sea battles with the Japanese, losing in May in the Coral Sea and ending up in a bloody draw off Midway in June
5. Other groups would head towards Gloucester and Bristol and a feint landing on the Norfolk coast was planned to draw off British reserves
6. Since they had agreed to seek ultimate victory in Europe by means of a cross Channel operation, was any other Mediterranean undertaking feasible? Because the available resources precluded simultaneous major campaigns in both areas, Mediterranean ventures would draw off the build-up being accumulated in the United Kingdom for the cross-Channel attack, and would probably postpone the decisive action
7. Rhone took a long draw off of his ale as he watched the
8. He decided to make our Master Adam (cpth) His successor on earth before He got him out to this world, and before He brought his offspring out from his back, where he was in a spiritual state, then He made his getting out of that spiritual state to this bodily one be in a way by which He showed the Honour of this messenger and his great love to his Creator, besides, the Almighty gave, by the tale of this first man, lasting examples and lessons to his sons when He made him stand before his offspring as the first tutor, and He fulfilled His will in such way so as to acquaint people with the spirit's rules upon which entering into God's Presence is based and to let them know the way through which the spirit can return to the field of sacredness so that if their spirits become shy and draw off diffident, they shall be able to return if they revives their confidence and dispels shame off them
9. on her, but that was only to draw off the KGB from Victor and have them follow her to a dead end road as far as getting information was concerned
10. When it had been fulled, Caris paid a finisher to draw off the loose threads with a teasel, the prickly head of a wild flower, and to repair small blemishes
11. Nevertheless, though his sister’s sin was no fault of his, and could not impair the worth of his well-earned character, yet some of the thoughtless young ensigns began to draw off from him, and he was visited, in a manner, with the disgrace of an excommunication
12. "What makes you draw off in that way, Tess?" said he
13. tempted to do so, draw off Mr Clare's attention from other women, for the brief happiness of sunning herself in his eyes while he remained at Talbothays?
14. unlooked-for upon Gondor from the South that will draw off great strength
15. If feasible use a syphon to a lower level (a) to draw off water without disturbing the still
16. I submit it to the candor and reflection of gentlemen of all parties, whether this thing, in a national point of view, can produce any evil—on the contrary, may it not produce good? All that has been said about the direct tax laws can have no other effect than to draw off the attention of the House from the true question before them
17. But its greatest importance is in a political point of view: for, although not as happy in its government as the United States, it is sufficiently so to draw off multitudes of our new settlers, when the intermediate lands of the State of New York, which separate it from New England, shall be fully occupied
