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Yet we find some examples not altogether unapplicable to this purpose.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

M. 40 Whatever was legally consecrated was ever afterwards unapplicable to profane uses.

From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by Melmoth, William

The Roman pandects will furnish us with a piece of history not unapplicable to our present purpose.

From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir