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a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. iii. 145 New Honors come vpon him Like our strange Garments, cleaue not to their mould, But with the aid of vse. View more context for this quotation

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iv. i. 44 Like a Diamond in his Native Rock, you shine without the aid of Art or Flattery.

1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick p. iv The seeds of..Sickness and Death, are now lodged in our inmost substance: Whence a thousand Disorders continually spring, even without the aid of External Violence.

1816 Times 21 Nov. 2 The Shropshire Whistler, who performs with the mouth, without the aid of any machinery or trickery, the most favourite airs, after the manner of the voice flute.

1906 Mrs. Beeton's Bk. Househ. Managem. (rev. ed.) 899 There are two ways of making a flan without the aid of a ring.

1992 Playboy July 10/3 Through the technology of cyberspace, man will..have the ability to manipulate..his environment with the aid of the computer.

2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard xiii. 162 They reach Haiti by dead reckoning—without the aid of stars or navigational instruments.