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  • Can't you all see that anybody standing on the Governments side of the house can slag the opposition off from a position of strength simply because they are the "doer's".

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Now, we're trying to trace the doer's car -- he and Lara left the bar together and were seen walking toward the back parking lot but nobody got a look at his wheels.

    Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

  • Can't you all see that anybody standing on the Governments side of the house can slag the opposition off from a position of strength simply because they are the "doer's".

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • It's amazing that western civilization managed to get through a bunch of other publishing hoaxes, Janet Cooke, Rich Cohn, Stephen Glass, Michael Finkel and the Epstein kid (Jason, Jacob?) without the internet putting red ants in the doer's underpants.

    Kaavyagate, the Prequel, the Sequel & the Miniseries 2006

  • "It followeth," quoth I. "Hence therefore, and for other causes grounded upon that principle that dishonesty of itself maketh men miserable, it appeareth that the injury which is offered any man is not the receiver's but the doer's misery."

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Women, I have since learned, not infrequently see, perhaps by instinct, deeper into primal causes than men, and there was more in her words than perhaps she realized, for though the immediate impulse may be trifling or unworthy, it is destiny that has set the task before us, and in spite of the doer's shortcomings it is for the good of many that all thorough work stands.

    Lorimer of the Northwest Harold Bindloss 1905

  • It helps to produce the impression that in his decline and fall the doer's act is returning on his own head.

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • Now such an act, in so far as the preservation of the doer's own life is intended, has no taint of evil about it, seeing that it is natural to everything to preserve itself in being as much as it can.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • Sin is worse than ignorance, and more against reason, because it is against the doer's own reason.

    Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888

  • It was then that Craven did one of those deeds that should be always linked with the doer's name, as Sidney's is with the cup of cold water.

    The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3. 1877

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