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  • I resolved to never make another new-years resolution.

    The Tree 2003

  • On new-years day, notwithstanding our horses were nearly all dead, as being fully satisfied that the few that were yet living must die soon, we concluded to have a feast in our best style; for which purpose we made preparation by sending out four of our best hunters, to get a choice piece of meat for the occasion.

    Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard 1839

  • After much foul weather at sea, we landed on new-years day 1589, at St Ives in

    A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 Robert Kerr 1784

  • HYMNS after Sermons to young people, on new-years evenings, suited to the subjects.

    Olney Hymns 1779

  • HYMNS before annual Sermons to young people, on new-years evenings.

    Olney Hymns 1779

  • That want of manners in the British Court may be seen even in its birth-days and new-years odes, which are calculated to infatuate the vulgar, and disgust the man of refinement; and her former overbearing rudeness, and insufferable injustice on the seas, have made every commercial nation her foe.

    A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the Affairs of North America, in Which the Mistakes in the Abbe's Account of the Revolution of America Are Corrected and Cleared Up Thomas Paine 1773

  • By essentially combining the Christmas rush with the new-years releases, do you think that some game companies are shooting themselves in the foot?

    Destructoid 2010

  • Considering my new-years resolution once again centers around my battle of the bulge, it made me think that being skinny is not all what it's cracked up to be, especially when you're a mogul like Jobs.

    Kingsport Times News - Daily 5 2009

  • Considering my new-years resolution once again centers around my battle of the bulge, it made me think that being skinny is not all what it's cracked up to be, especially when you're a mogul like Jobs.

    Kingsport Times News - Daily 5 2009

  • Considering my new-years resolution once again centers around my battle of the bulge, it made me think that being skinny is not all what it's cracked up to be, especially when you're a mogul like Jobs.

    Kingsport Times News - Daily 5 2009

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