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  • This will involve slightly less wholesale self-dedication, but will not involve doing anything that I find morally repugnant, should be interesting, and should help people who need it.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • This will involve slightly less wholesale self-dedication, but will not involve doing anything that I find morally repugnant, should be interesting, and should help people who need it.

    Better 2007

  • Your self-dedication or initiation ritual, if you did/had one

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Your self-dedication or initiation ritual, if you did/had one

    Where To Park Your Broomstick Lauren Manoy 2002

  • Etta, indeed, and one or two others, were in white, because it happened to be more convenient and suitable, but neither Mr. Morven nor Miss Eunice wished to have the consciousness of dress interfere with the solemn thoughts of self-dedication and renunciation of the world appropriate to the occasion.

    Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life Margaret E. Winslow

  • We may produce, however, a striking document of self-dedication which belongs to this period.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • The question was, where to find a Saviour; and the spirit of the Divine Son was manifested in his self-dedication to the work.

    Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn George Tybout Purves

  • Ross, of Philadelphia, had woven inextinguishable stars; the red stripes typifying the glory, the valor, and the self-sacrifice of the men who died that liberty might live; and the white, emblematic of purity, fitly representing those principles to preserve which these men had sanctified themselves by an immortal self-dedication.

    America First Patriotic Readings Jasper Leonidas McBrien

  • On that day of rest, with her Bible in her hand, she used to wander through the woods, renew her self-dedication, and pour out her prayer for the salvation of her husband and her children.

    The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. Isabella Graham

  • In this elegant little book "Amy" is the descendant of influential patrons and patronesses, and "Agnes" is the lovely saint whom Miss Nightingale calls "Una," though her high-bred purity and lowly self-dedication rather recall the character of Elizabeth of Hungary.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various

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