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reclamation
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  • We drive along Reclamation Street through markets and boutiques.†   (source)
  • Then Tappan would speak about the reclamation of souls for the Lord God, the need to "take our black brethren to our breast and provide them with the jewels of Christianity and civilized knowledge."†   (source)
  • Petrocelli, Reclamation Invoice Division.†   (source)
  • ...any place there was mining before the 1970s, there's a real need for reclamation.   (source)
  • The Bureau of Reclamation is trying to put all waste water to a second use.
  • I seem to recall something about this Institute taking charge of a reclamation project.†   (source)
  • Reclamations," he commanded.†   (source)
  • And the turning on of electricity in ships, portholes of moon, the blue glide of a tug, the harbour road and its ship chandlers, soap makers, ice on bicycles, the hidden anonymous barber shops behind the pink dirt walls of Reclamation Street.†   (source)
  • They bought the ranch by means of a loan from Washington under a project for the reclamation of distressed areas, such as Arizona.†   (source)
  • Marshville had been the end of the Line for months past; service to Wyatt Junction had been discontinued long ago; Dr. Ferris' Reclamation Project had been abandoned this winter.†   (source)
  • She spoke belligerently about her work not being charity, but "human reclamation."†   (source)
  • As for his sister, she might have been removed, like Winston himself, to one of the colonies for homeless children (Reclamation centers, they were called) which had grown up as a result of the civil war, or she might have been sent to the labor camp along with his mother, or simply left somewhere or other to die.†   (source)
  • … "It really is a bit too thick," the Head Mistress of Eton was saying to the Director of Crematoria and Phosphorus Reclamation.†   (source)
  • The Spirit must have heard him thinking, for it said immediately: "Your reclamation, then.†   (source)
  • Of the larger cities of the land, only Zenith had hesitated to submit its vices to Mike Monday and his expert reclamation corps.†   (source)
  • "You make the demand badly," replied Aramis; "and while acknowledging the justice of your reclamation, I refuse it on account of the form."†   (source)
  • But as for Yeobright, when he looked from the heights on his way he could not help indulging in a barbarous satisfaction at observing that, in some of the attempts at reclamation from the waste, tillage, after holding on for a year or two, had receded again in despair, the ferns and furze-tufts stubbornly reasserting themselves.†   (source)
  • But this deception would probably not have stopped our fiery young man if the host had not reflected that the reclamation which his guest made was perfectly just.†   (source)
  • The reclamation of dunams of waste arenary soil, proposed in the prospectus of Agendath Netaim, Bleibtreustrasse, Berlin, W. 15, by the cultivation of orange plantations and melonfields and reafforestation.†   (source)
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