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stamp

1. 
b. a mark applied to postage stamps for cancellation purposes
2. a similar piece of gummed paper used for commercial or trading purposes
3. a piece of gummed paper or other mark applied to official documents to indicate payment of a fee, validity, ownership, etc.
4. Brit informal a national insurance contribution, formerly recorded by means of a stamp on an official card
5. an instrument or machine for crushing or pounding ores, etc., or the pestle in such a device
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They therefore made a most stubborn resistance to the Stamp Act."
Grandfather spoke briefly of the public measures that were taken in opposition to the Stamp Act.
They sent a humble petition to the king, and a memorial to the Parliament, beseeching that the Stamp Act might be repealed.
He folded the stamps in with his manuscript, dropped it into the letter-box, and from three weeks to a month afterward the postman came up the steps and handed him the manuscript.
And next day Martin Eden cast hack-work aside, and at white heat hammered out an essay to which he gave the title, "The Philosophy of Illusion." A stamp started it on its travels, but it was destined to receive many stamps and to be started on many travels in the months that followed.
And their function is to catch all the young fellows attending the university, to drive out of their minds any glimmering originality that may chance to be there, and to put upon them the stamp of the established."
An instinct is merely a habit that is stamped into the stuff of our heredity, that is all.
The book's author Arshi Ahmad-Aziz said that postage stamps were a lot more than a little piece of gum paper, which you lick and stick.
Several stamps featured prominent monuments rather the names of the state.
The stamps feature the two iconic pictures of Gray after her win during the Miss Universe 2018 pageant night.
uk/stamps Please send your stamps to: BCRT Stamp Appeal, 20 Bowers Road, Benfleet, Essex SS7 5PZ.