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lost ground

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lost ground
Soil which runs from outside to within an excavation, as around or through sheeting, or as a boil on the bottom.


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The longer Alban resisted, the more surely he lost ground in the general estimation.
The result was that in the next generation the family brain was registered at only 58 degrees, and not till the lapse of five generations was the lost ground recovered, the full 60 degrees attained, and the Ascent from the Isosceles finally achieved.
Fanny was beginning to feel the effect of being debarred from her usual regular exercise; she had lost ground as to health since her being in Portsmouth; and but for Mr.
 
 
 
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