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Then he went on but, before he had gone far, he said in his mind, "An I take up the money and put my steed to speed and devance him, how shall he overtake me?"
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Iceman, qui a su tirer parti de son SREC, devance Giancarlo Fisichella.
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Iceman, qui a su tirer parti de son SREC, devance Giancarlo Fisichella.
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Iceman, qui a su tirer parti de son SREC, devance Giancarlo Fisichella.
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Iceman, qui a su tirer parti de son SREC, devance Giancarlo Fisichella.
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; and gave her a hanger that would devance man's destiny.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
 
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