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These days, "Abridge" is what they do regularly at election time.
Explaining How Stolen Elections Keep Obama From Being a Sure Win to a Friend in Tribal Area Pakistan 2008
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“Abridge, redact,” he exclaims towards the end, but there was no abridgment and no redaction.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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"Abridge, redact," he exclaims towards the end, but there was no abridgment and no redaction.
The Life of Froude 1894
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Abridge, if possible, the time of our trial; stifle pride and avarice in equality; annihilate this love of glory which enslaves us; teach these poor children that in the bosom of liberty there are neither heroes nor great men!
What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890
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Abridge the "plot" into a synopsis, and you will find your digest to be what is manifestly the outline of a straightforward, plumed romance by the elder Dumas.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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Abridge, if possible, the time of our trial; stifle pride and avarice in equality; annihilate this love of glory which enslaves us; teach these poor children that in the bosom of liberty there are neither heroes nor great men!
What is Property? 1837
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The accident involving the buggy and helicopter happened at Abridge golf course
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The buggy careered out of control at Abridge Golf Course and hit the tail rotor of the helicopter at nearby Stapleford Airfield.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Abridge then, I intreat you, as much as possible, those delays which are in some degree inevitable, and let me have the agreeable surprize of holding my St. Julian to my breast before I imagined I had reason to expect his return.
Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian William Godwin 1796
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Mr Perry will tell you how miserable low the Price of Tobo is at this day the only Commodity we have to rais money by and will Also acquaint you wth the Strict orders he is Under to Abridge you in your Expe nces and to Allow you no more than what will be Absolutely necessary to Support you in keeping the most impproving
Letter from Robert Carter to Lewis Burwell, June 26, 1729 1729
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