“Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fournaces all burning bright; / By euery fournace many feendes did byde, / Deformed creatures, horrible in ſight, / And euery feend his buſie paines applyde, / To melt ⟳ the golden metall, ready to be tryde.”

“There was juſt ſuch another Innocent as this, in my Fathers Family : He did the Courſe Work ⟳ in the Kitchin, and was bid at his firſt Coming to take ⟳ off the Range, and let ⟳ down the Cynders before he went to Bed.”

“We sell ⟳ a wide range of cars.”

“But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.”

“Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call ⟳ it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play ⟳ consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate ⟳ big free trade ⟳ and investment agreements.”

“We could see ⟳ the ship at a range of five miles.”

“One can use ⟳ the speed ⟳ of sound ⟳ to estimate ⟳ the range of a lightning flash ⟳.”

“This missile's range is 500 kilometres.”

“This aircraft's range is 15 000 kilometres.”

“There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range / His horse and his cattle are his only companions”

“As to acquir’d habits and abilities in Learning, his Writings having given the World ſufficient account of them, there remains onely to obſerve, that the range and compaſs of his knowledge fill’d the whole Circle of the Arts, and reach’d thoſe ſeverals which ſingle do exact an entire man unto themſelves, and full age.”

“For we may further obſerve that men of the greateſt abilities are moſt fired with ambition : and that, on the contrary, mean ⟳ and narrow minds are the leaſt actuated by it ; whether it be that a man’s ſenſe of his own ⟳ incapacities makes him deſpair of coming at fame, or that he has not enough range of thought to look ⟳ out for any good which does not more immediately relate ⟳ to his intereſt or convenience, or that Providence, in the very frame of his ſoul, would not ſubject him to ſuch a paſſion as would be uſeleſs to the world, and a torment to himſelf.”

“Far as Creation’s ample range extends, / The ſcale of Senſual, Mental pow’rs aſcends : / Mark ⟳ how it mounts, to Man’s imperial race ⟳, / From the green myriads in the peopled graſs !”

“Jones has good range for a big man.”

“std::for_each calls the given function on each value in the input range.”

“The next Range of Beings above him are the pure and immaterial Intelligences , the next below him is the sensible Nature.”

“the first range of that ladder”

“, "Taking Pleasure in Other Men's Sins" He may take ⟳ a range all the world over.”

“By playing in comedies as well as in dramas he has proved his range as an actor.”

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