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Villain, your self Mother of an illegitimate Child, and deprive it too of the Right of Inheritance, by proving it a Bastard; and his first Wife of a comfortable Subsistance, which she enjoys now in right of her second
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Rome, where I had liv'd in so much Splendour; and she retiring with a Pretence of leading a vertuous recollected Life, I thought I could not propose to my self a happier Way of Subsistance.
Exilius 2008
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Villain, your self Mother of an illegitimate Child, and deprive it too of the Right of Inheritance, by proving it a Bastard; and his first Wife of a comfortable Subsistance, which she enjoys now in right of her second
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At the same time, Palemon and Favorella, began to find their Circumstances too narrow for a decent Subsistance, which began to call loud on them to change the Measures of their living.
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At the same time, Palemon and Favorella, began to find their Circumstances too narrow for a decent Subsistance, which began to call loud on them to change the Measures of their living.
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Subsistance living was how he was raised by his Cajun daddy and Sioux mama on the bayou just off the brown water of Vermilion Bay.
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Subsistance or pay of the British had gone into any hands but those of the
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Physick, by trading in trading and bargaining and scheming he picks up a Subsistance for his family and gathers very gradually, Additions to his Stock.
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Brest either from the Magazine, or for the Subsistance of his
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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Subsistance, and she was what is much more, a discreet, decent, virtuous and worthy Woman.
John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778 1961
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