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• Provided magistracies were filled by men freely chosen or drawn.
• the huge Offa's dike which he drew from the mouth of Wye to that of Dee
• to draw into less room
• The citizens were afraid the casino would draw an undesirable element to their town.  I was drawn to her.
• When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
• By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.
• On one of my expeditions, after a stormy night, at the end of March, the hounds drew all day without finding a fox.
• In a desperately tight opening set, the pace and accuracy of the Serbian's groundstrokes began to draw errors from the usually faultless Nadal and earned him the first break point of the day at 5-4.
• Keep a watch upon the particular bias of their minds, that it may not draw too much.
• You may draw on me for the expenses of your journey.
• He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.
• He will be hanged, drawn and quartered.
• In private draw your poultry, clean your tripe.
• We drew last time we played.  I drew him last time I played him.  I drew my last game against him.
• The game is won when a player places any of his pieces on the same square with his opponent's Princess, or when a Chief takes a Chief. It is drawn when a Chief is taken by any opposing piece other than the opposing Chief;
• The winning lottery numbers were drawn every Tuesday.
• How long her face is drawn!
• He drew a prize.
• Jill has four diamonds; she'll try to draw for a flush.
• The game ended in a draw.
• The draw is on Saturday.
• Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw.
• The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral.
• The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw
• In the card game, everything depended on the next draw.
• She fought the match to a draw.
• To draw is to produce a picture with pencil, crayon, chalk, etc. on paper, cardboard, etc.
• to draw water from a well
• To draw a tooth.
• To draw is to pull out (as a gun from a holster).
• to draw on the financial resources of the bank
• to draw one's materials for the report from historical documents
• At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
• Can I, untouched, the fair one's passions move, / Or thou draw beauty and not feel its power?
• Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
• Tea is much nicer if you let it draw for three minutes before pouring.
• to draw money from a bank
• Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[...]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
• So always look on the bright side of death / Just before you draw your terminal breath
• We drew back from the cliff edge.
• The runners drew level with each other as they approached the finish line.
• Draw near to the fire and I will tell you a tale.
• We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history.
• Go, wash thy face, and draw thy action.
• to draw a memorial, a deed, or bill of exchange
• Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
• “[…] No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it.”
• Lys shuddered, and I put my arm around her and drew her to me; and thus we sat throughout the hot night. She told me of her abduction and of the fright she had undergone, and together we thanked God that she had come through unharmed, because the great brute had dared not pause along the danger-infested way.
• A flattering painter who made it his care / To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
• This horse draws well.
• A ship's sail is said to draw when it is filled with wind.
• One fine day in the middle of the night, / two dead men got up to fight. / Back to back they faced each other, / Drew their swords and shot each other.
• The carriage draws easily.
• At the start of their turn, each player must draw a card.
• draw water from a well;  draw water for a bath;  the wound drew blood
• The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
• Spirits, by distillations, may be drawn out of vegetable juices, which shall flame and fume of themselves.
• Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can be generated.
• until you had drawn oaths from him
• A ship draws ten feet of water.
• Greater hulks draw deep.
• A chimney or flue draws.
• to draw a mass of metal into wire