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Treaty which, though it proved abortional, and never came to fulfilment in any part of it, is at this day one of the remarkablest bits of sheepskin extant in the world.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas

Nevertheless the reader is to note well this Treaty of Warsaw, as important to Friedrich and him; and indeed it is perhaps the remarkablest Treaty, abortional or realized, which got to parchment in that Century.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas