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  • The following year, one day after Congress endorsed the Declaration of Independence, John Adams wrote hopefully that greater hardships—for Americans—would ensue: It may be the Will of Heaven that America shall suffer Calamities still more wasting and Distresses yet more dreadfull.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • I wish the states had enabled me to do more, but it is to be lamented that the Supineness of the several Legislatures still leaves the servants of the public to struggle with unmerited Distresses.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • I wish the states had enabled me to do more, but it is to be lamented that the Supineness of the several Legislatures still leaves the servants of the public to struggle with unmerited Distresses.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Men of New York, Complaining of the Distresses of the Community, and Praying For Relief, 23rd Cong., 1st

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • Distresses which surround her, appeals, as a last resource, to her Uncle for Protection

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Hawk, and the Complicated Difficulties and Distresses which surround her, appeals, as a last resource, to her Uncle for Protection

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Distresses which surround her, appeals, as a last resource, to her Uncle for Protection

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • And particularly shewing, The Distresses that may attend the Misconduct

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And particularly shewing, The Distresses that may attend the Misconduct

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Your Friend will never have Leisure, he will never have the Patience to describe the Dangers, the Mortifications, the Distresses he has undergone in

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 June 1782 1973

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