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  • We had to learn the "To Sit in Solemn Silence" passage in college, and my friend Glenn and I can still recite it at a rapid clip.

    Archive 2006-10-01 KaneCitizen 2006

  • We had to learn the "To Sit in Solemn Silence" passage in college, and my friend Glenn and I can still recite it at a rapid clip.

    Saturday Stuff KaneCitizen 2006

  • An agreement was framed, which, in imita - — rion of former times, they called a Solemn League and Covenant.

    An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795

  • In 1814 he further studied the subject, with the result that he wrote a little book which he called A Solemn Review of the Custom of War. [

    Unitarianism in America George Willis Cooke 1885

  • When it is sung by a priest, assisted by a deacon and sub-deacon, it is called a Solemn Mass; (3) When sung by a priest without deacon and sub-deacon, it is called a Missa Cantata or High Mass; (4) When the Mass is only read in a low tone it is called a low or private Mass.

    Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4) Anonymous

  • Hamilton's brother Lanark was using the Great Seal to raise a Scotch army against the king, for, by a treaty called the Solemn League and

    The Red Book of Heroes Mrs. Lang 1909

  • The treaty which brought the Scots in was called the Solemn League and Covenant.

    Westminster Wisdom 2009

  • They’d found the cry, and it went up in a chorus, from mouths that had never personally spoken a word to Solemn Winter Moon.

    Blood Hollow William Kent Krueger 2004

  • They’d found the cry, and it went up in a chorus, from mouths that had never personally spoken a word to Solemn Winter Moon.

    Blood Hollow William Kent Krueger 2004

  • "Solemn" China raps U.S. envoy in Dalai Lama row minister Yang Jiechi said on Sunday that relations with the

    WN.com - Articles related to Bin Laden's daughter released from Iran, in Syria 2010

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