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  • Madame Functionary added that in order to appeal the appeal (to the Whittier Supreme Court of Parking?), I would have to show up in person armed with proof of my innocence.

    Michael Sigman: You Can Fight City Hall 2010

  • Little-Known Functionary Replacing the director was Mr. Putin, who was then a little-known functionary from the Kremlin administration.

    In Russian Murder Case, 2007

  • Carolina because of his supposed abolition tendencies, I advise him to bestow a liberal cursing on our Old Public Functionary, assuring him that he will thereby not only escape tar and feathers, but acquire popularity.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • Sir George dropped the correspondence with "that Functionary [who] displays so complete a disregard for fact," {239a} and as Count Ofalia evaded the real question at issue, holding out

    The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912

  • The Lord High Functionary had put it bluntly to the Prime

    King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912

  • The Appropriate Memorial A HIGH Public Functionary having died, the citizens of his town held a meeting to consider how to honour his memory, and an Other High Public Functionary rose and addressed the meeting.

    Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1899

  • Functionary turned up a cross street, the young man closed in on his quarry.

    The Aspirations of Jean Servien Anatole France 1884

  • He is now the great Minister, the supreme sacerdotal Functionary, of the heavenly sanctuary, "the true tabernacle," [Greek: tês skênês tês alêthinês], the non-figurative reality of which the Mosaic structure was only the shadow; the true scene of unveiled Presence and immortal worship, "pitched" by Him whose face makes Heaven, and makes it all one temple.

    Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews 1880

  • A High Public Functionary having died, the citizens of his town held a meeting to consider how to honour his memory, and an Other High Public

    Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 1878

  • Functionary, nervously swinging between the God of his fathers and the

    An Address in Commemoration of the Re-Establishment of the National Flag at Fort Sumter. 1865

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