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1 Only they had learned the trick of speech and got by rote the language of religion.
2 At these words, which I am inclined to fancy had been got by rote , she sighed and looked down.
3 Such was the lesson which this fellow had got by rote , and had been retailing to all comers for years.
4 Sir, -In a verse I got by rote at school, the poet Pearse tells us that he is sad.
5 This does not apply to formulæ got by rote , which are stages on the road to nowhere but second childhood and the grave.
6 As he grew older, this wonderful power became impaired so far that getting by rote the compositions of others was no longer an involuntary process.
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