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  • Our organization League of Care of Invalids is a social organization.

    Think Progress » Warren Buffett: Major Philanthropist and Opponent of Estate Tax Repeal 2006

  • I will have the letters of nobility made out for him, for which he shall pay the sum of one hundred louis d'ors to the 'Invalids' at Berlin.

    Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

  • It depends upon him whether as a true nobleman he will not give my poor 'Invalids' a greater sum.

    Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

  • Then, addressing the "Invalids," for whom the whole lower gallery had been reserved, he continued in a still more powerful voice:

    The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Two centenarian "Invalids" who had fought beside Maréchal Saxe were standing, one to the right and one to the left of Berthier, like caryatides of an ancient world, gazing across the centuries.

    The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • Herr Ebenstreit has sent the money, doubling the amount required to the 'Invalids' Hospital 'at Berlin, so that when the papers of nobility arrive, there -- "

    Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

  • Invalids travelling the Plains for their health were not as rare as Flashman imagined; even in the early days the air of Colorado and New Mexico drew chest-sufferers west.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • A recent employer survey by Vietnam's Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs found that just 40% of the workforce had training of any sort.

    Outsourcing To Vietnam 2010

  • War was a public ritual of the highest order, as the beautifully decorated cannons in the Invalids in Paris and the chariots with their depict ions of the gods in the Metropolitan Museum of Art so eloquently attest Men love their weapons, not simply for helping to keep them alive, but for a deeper reason.

    Bush Rules 2007

  • I wonder if that would fit in with my cookbook section on "Cooking for Invalids".

    Old Time Wreck 'n Roll 2009

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