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reservation

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reservation
1. an area of land set aside, esp (in the US) for American Indian peoples
2. Brit the strip of land between the two carriageways of a dual carriageway
3. Law a right or interest retained by the grantor in property granted, conveyed, leased, etc., to another


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Therefore, the common usage is to take in all sail; lash the helm a'lee; and then send every one below to his hammock till daylight, with the reservation that, until that time, anchor-watches shall be kept; that is, two and two for an hour, each couple, the crew in rotation shall mount the deck to see that all goes well.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
But Pierre believed it without any mental reservation.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Despite the fact, therefore, that all Nietzsche's views in this respect were dictated to him by the profoundest love; despite Zarathustra's reservation in this discourse, that "with women nothing (that can be said) is impossible," and in the face of other overwhelming evidence to the contrary, Nietzsche is universally reported to have mis son pied dans le plat, where the female sex is concerned.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
 
 
 
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