Example Sentences

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How you have contrived, to pack up portably for use—together at the same time—appliances for health and recipes for strength, exercises for war, and pains to promote your wealth!

From The Economist by Dakyns, Henry Graham

Translates roughly as "Hey, I tried to write this portably, but who knows what'll happen on your system?"

From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.