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Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Defiling the rights of its citizens and ignoring international law are minor matters by comparison and easily ignored as Canada sinks into the same moral swamp as America.
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Also see Natalie Robins, “The Defiling of American Writers,” The Nation, October 10, 1987, 367.
Savage Peace Ann Hagedorn 2007
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Defiling the rights of its citizens and ignoring international law are minor matters by comparison and easily ignored as Canada sinks into the same moral swamp as America.
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Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.
Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909
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Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.
Can Such Things Be 1893
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Ten years earlier the Judge had written to the Boston schoolmaster, begging him to "insinuate into the Scholars the Defiling and Provoking nature of such a Foolish Practice" as playing tricks on April first.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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Defiling the trunks of the trees were broad maculations of crimson, and blood dripped like dew from their foliage.
Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878
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Defiling by the right, having cautiously thrown out a flanking regiment under Colonel Hall, of Maryland, the army pushed on by a circuitous course towards Rawdon.
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