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  • I believe some of them, like Bower and the members of 'Justs Say No Deal, the other group he helped launch are liars and supported McCain all along, but are trying to lure Hillary supporters to vote for McCain with their false message.

    A Clinton backer turns to McCain 2008

  • In honour of which publique Feast, the King kept a triumphall day (of Justs and Turnament) at Catalana, and whereat it chanced, that the Daughter of Bernardo, named Lisana, was present.

    The Decameron 2004

  • In the early months of 1509 preparations were made for 'solemn Justs in Honour of the Queen.

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • _Elizabeth_, for their better entertainment, Solemn Justs were proclaimed, where the Earl of _Arundel, Frederick_ Lord _Windsor_, Sir

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • [Sidenote: VIII] For the present we proceed to say that, the Justs and the Unjusts being what have been mentioned, a man is said to act unjustly or justly when he embodies these abstracts in voluntary actions, but when in involuntary, then he neither acts unjustly or justly except accidentally; I mean that the being just or unjust is really only accidental to the agents in such cases.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • Now of Justs and Lawfuls each bears to the acts which embody and exemplify it the relation of an universal to a particular; the acts being many, but each of the principles only singular because each is an universal.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • He seems also to have taken part in many 'Justs and Tourneys.'

    Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

  • But there are some men who think that all the Justs are of this latter kind, and on this ground: whatever exists by nature, they say, is unchangeable and has everywhere the same force; fire, for instance, burns not here only but in Persia as well, but the Justs they see changed in various places.

    Ethics 384 BC-322 BC Aristotle

  • The St. Justs 'are quite plebeian, and the republican government employs many spies.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

  • The St. Justs 'are quite plebeian, and the republican government employs many spies.

    The Scarlet Pimpernel 1905

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