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Let me tell you that the National Cancer Institute commissioned a study in 1996 by Janet Dawling (ph), who is strongly pro-choice.
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And so he walked up the moonlit street toward his lodging like one drunk or bewildered; for "John Malyoe" was the name of the captain of the Adventure galley -- he who had shot Barnaby's own grandfather -- and "Abraham Dawling" was the name of the gunner of the
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882
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Dawling remembered things; I think he caught in my very face the irony of old judgments: they made him thresh about in his chair.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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I wanted to embrace them both, and while the opening bars of another scene rose from the orchestra I almost did embrace Dawling, whose first emotion on beholding me had visibly and ever so oddly been a consciousness of guilt.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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The greatest blessing of all was of course that Dawling thought so.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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As regards poor Dawling I knew how often he still called on the Hammond Synges.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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A few days later I again heard Dawling on my stairs, and even before he passed my threshold I knew he had something to tell me.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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She went up to poor Dawling and laid a motherly hand upon him.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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With Dawling as with me the compassion was at first in excess of any visible motive; so that when eventually the motive was supplied each could to a certain extent compliment the other on the fineness of his foresight.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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Dawling hilariously explained that when one wished very much to get anything one usually ended by doing so -- a proposition which led me wholly to dissent and our young lady to asseverate that she hadn't in the least wished to get Mr. Dawling.
Embarrassments Henry James 1879
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