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noun

Also called Seven Pines. a locality in E Virginia, near Richmond: battle 1862.

a town in central California, near Sacramento.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

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Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
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Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
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He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
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Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
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May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”
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