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It became a straight left versus right battle with the normal dividing line shifting further over than in general elections – hence the Labour Party split and their discomforture.
Thirty years of "no" Richard 2005
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In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.
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"The discomforture that was relied upon was envisaged as a consequence of the revelation that many countries had traded with pre-transition South Africa, despite their protestation to the contrary and in defiance of a United Nations embargo", the commission said.
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To add to the discomforture of the love-hungry, Bidworthy stuck his head out of the airlock and rasped, 'If you monkeys are bursting with surplus energy I can find a few jobs for you to do — nice, dirty ones.
Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973
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Lorne told his mother afterward that he thought, in that embarrassing circumstance, of Mrs Leveret and Mrs Delarue, and they laughed consumedly together over his discomforture; but what he felt at the moment was not the humour of the situation.
The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan
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The experimental subject, experienced no digestive troubles or discomforture whatsoever except in the case of the English walnut, which evidently contains some irritating substance that causes diarrhea.
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How then explain the undoubted discomforture that many people experience after eating nuts?
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I have always the feeling that I am the review, that it has been staged particularly for my discomforture, and that every officer in camp is on the lookout for any slight irregularity in my clothes or conduct.
Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Thorne Smith 1913
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The fellows nearest at hand who had been either watching the game or delighting in Joe's discomforture turned their attention to Grafton and the new junior.
The New Boy at Hilltop Ralph Henry Barbour 1907
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In the meanwhile brake the ambushment of King Ban and King Bors, and Lionses and Phariance had the vanguard, and they two knights met with King Idres and his fellowship, and there began a great medley of breaking of spears, and smiting of swords, with slaying of men and horses, and King Idres was near at discomforture.
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