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track

the type of procedures which will apply to a case under the Civil Procedure Rules.

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We did so, and at the end of a few hundred yards lost the tracks as we emerged from the boggy portion of the moor.

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"They will be upon our track by this time," he said.

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I knew the Indians would soon discover that they were on the wrong trail and that the search for me would be renewed in the right direction as soon as they located my tracks.

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No sign of pursuit had developed, and yet we were sure that somewhere behind us relentless Sagoths were dogging our tracks. Ghak said they never failed to hunt down their quarry until they had captured it or themselves been turned back by a superior force.

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The horse's track was already hardly visible in places where the snow did not lie deep.

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These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains; thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.

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The trouble was over in an amazingly short time, for from the judges' stand beside the track the announcer was bellowing the start of the boys' foot-race; and Bert, disappointed, joined Billy and the two girls on the hillside looking down upon the track.

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It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow

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"Well, so'd I; but I'd like to see him, anyway -- and track him out -- to his Number Two."

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And there may be sixty, eighty, any number of these crosses on the ship's track from land to land.

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"Nearly always in cases like this there is some little detail or other overlooked, some wee little track or trace left behind, and detection follows; but here there's not even the faintest suggestion of a trace left.

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if my husband was to be believed, his mother must have tracked us to London, tracked us to the church, tracked us to the railway station, tracked us to Ramsgate!