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  • Kinsmen and friends and Brahmanas shun a poor man as birds avoid,

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • She informed us, you may remember, that the stranger who met, and appeared to avoid,

    Verner's Pride Henry Wood 1850

  • There is, however, an old indisputable, very well known story, which has so pointed a moral at the end of it that I will substitute it for a new case: by doing of which I may avoid,

    Speeches: Literary and Social Charles Dickens 1841

  • ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - From the middle of the ninth fairway, just to the right of a pot bunker that he managed to avoid,

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) - From the middle of the ninth fairway, just to the right of a pot bunker that he managed to avoid,

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • So, to detect if compression is running, useful for if you want to disable, or avoid,

    Planet Jabber 2009

  • So this does the job, partially, it lowers the System Cache, but at the same time it triggers what I want to avoid,

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • So this does the job, partially, it lowers the System Cache, but at the same time it triggers what I want to avoid,

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • But senior US Embassy officials sent out emails directing staff not to write letters in support of their asylum request-to avoid,

    MotherJones.com By David Corn 2009

  • Shin lauds students who do so; those who don't risk losing a belt, a blow any student wants to avoid,

    Thousand Oaks Acorn 2009

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