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  • And if you attend his inauguration he will be raffling free four year tours to fight in Iraq for the first one hindred people!

    McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008

  • Just because the past few hindred years have been rough does not mean that the entire civilization is about to collapse.

    Ethnic Strife, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Mrs Clemins a Widow living in the Harbour of Renews, whose fishing Premises Joined the spot of Ground granted my Father by the said Captain Smith, as the Grant will make appear, the said Mrs Clemins servants, Arthur Jackman and Stephen Power have molested and hindred me from Building my Stage and Trespassed upon the Flake foresaid [and] threatened and abused me.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Faire Ladies, the paltry Judge of the Marquisate, whereof yesterday I made relation to you; hindred mee then of another

    The Decameron 2004

  • Wherefore, I am of this opinion, that in matters of good life, and performing honest actions; no dreame is to be feared presaging the contrary, neither are good works any way to be hindred by them.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Now grew the Muletter extreamely angry, giving her many cruell stroakes, on the head, sides, flancks and all parts else, but yet they proved to no purpose, which Melisso and Giosefo seeing, and being (by this meanes) hindred of their passage, they called to the

    The Decameron 2004

  • But the Sunne was so extreamly hot, the houre of noone being already past, that it meerly parched her delicate body, and burnt her bare head so violently: as not onely it seared all the flesh it touched; but also cleft and chinkt it strangely, beside blisters and other painfull scorchings in the flesh which hindred her sleeping, to help her self (by all possible means) waking.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Governour loved very dearly, and hindred her marriage with

    The Decameron 2004

  • Thus you may perceive, that the cunning Villanies of Fortarigo, hindred the honest intended enterprise of Aniolliero howbeit in fit time and place, nothing afterward was left unpunished.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Being thus seised of her, he carried her as lightly away, as if shee had bin no heavier then a Lambe, she being (by no meanes) able to cry, because he held her so fast by the throate, and hindred any helping of her selfe.

    The Decameron 2004

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