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If it had not been for the endless eurozone agonisings, however, the talk at Cannes would properly have been about how the nations of the world could once again try to get ahead of the markets, as they briefly did in 2009.
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After the high agonisings and aspirations of the day's prayer, the awfulness of the holy Sacrifice, the tramping monotony of the Psalter, the sting of the discipline, the aches and sweats of the manual labour, the intent strain of the illuminating, this song to Mary was a running into Mother's arms and finding compensation there for all toils and burdens.
The King's Achievement Robert Hugh Benson 1892
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Otherwise we'd have had endless years of Sunday supplements filled with agonisings over and analysis of the correspondence.
Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009
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