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A few days afterwards our long-talked-of excursion to Gunong
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I began to think of the long-talked-of head-stone of Anderson's as a possibility which was not so very remote, after all.
The Lady of the Ice A Novel James De Mille
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I assure you, I really thought for the moment that the long-talked-of
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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The matter remained in abeyance for a year or two, and it was not until 1826, when the prince probably felt that he had no time to lose, that the long-talked-of divorce actually took place.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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The scheme was a much more ambitious one than that in which we had recently taken a part, and, if everything went forward according to plan, it meant that we would be on the go for a considerable time, and there even appeared to be a chance of getting a taste of the long-talked-of open warfare.
Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose
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- General of the Philippines (_vide_ p. 377) -- a more noble and compassionate man than his predecessor -- unsuccessfully essayed the policy of coercing the rebels in arms whilst cajoling peaceful autonomists and separatists with the long-talked-of self-government.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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If you can get Nance out of the way tomorrow afternoon, I'll send the Marquis off with Jesse for that long-talked-of visit to Mondy Port; and I'll give Jesse instructions not to get him back before dark.
The Inn at the Red Oak Latta Griswold
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As spirit _per se_ has no entity, and only evolves individuality through its relationship with matter; and has no other conscious expression; the so long-talked-of "Fall of man" was not a fall downward, but it was a process upward, necessary to his being, to his existence as man.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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In the afternoon, the long-talked-of game of basket ball came off between the sophomores and the freshmen.
Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore Pauline Lester
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Much disappointed in the appearance of the long-talked-of Kaskaskia.
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Richard Lee Mason
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