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It's going to entail a discussion with my family [and] a real close look at the lay of the land, and to consider whether there are those with that common sense, conservative, pro-Constitution passion, whether there are already candidates out there who can do the job, and I'll get to be their biggest supporter and biggest help-mate, if they will have me.
Sarah Palin: I'll Run For President 'If There's Nobody Else To Do It' (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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"Redeeming woman from her inferior position and placing her side by side with man, a help-mate for him in all his pursuits".
Godey's tellurian 2010
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She explained that she was trying to be a help-meet or help-mate to her husband.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
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She explained that she was trying to be a help-meet or help-mate to her husband.
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She was incredibly lonely, she had thought that she would be more of a help-mate to Lincoln but found herself shut out of the 'boy's club,' in a way that she hadn't been in Springfield.
Archive 2009-01-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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The relationship between this first pair of humans is also expressed by the term ezer ke-negdo, translated “helper as his partner” by the NRSV and “helpmeet” or “help-mate” in older English versions (2: 18).
Eve: Bible. 2009
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That's exactly how many should vote for John McCain and his new help-mate.
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That's exactly how many should vote for John McCain and his new help-mate.
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In mediæval or Germanic Europe the doctrine of the Virgin mother gave the sex a status unknown to the Ancients except in Egypt, where Isis was the help-mate and completion of Osiris, in modern parlance The
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Mrs. Cleishbotham was not long before renewing the subject; for, like most of the race of Xantippe, (though my help-mate is a well-spoken woman,) she loves to thrust in her oar where she is not able to pull it to purpose.
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