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Beaten badly, face swelling into something that looked like a child's goblin mask, slipping toward a coma, Cort had fought back unconscious-ness long enough to offer his newest apprentice gunslinger counsel: stay away from Marten yet awhile,
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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I had magnificent offers made to me, if I would consent to sell him, but I refused them all, and, after awhile,
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The gray and the white coaxed him hard for awhile,
Nestlings A Collection of Poems Ella Fraser Weller
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But I am older now, and have lived with grief awhile,
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Of his armour and war-cloak and garments, he leaned there awhile,
Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904
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It was a dismaying failure; and when the invalid said she would go and lie down for awhile,
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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Beheld the Lord of Heaven, and He rested Him there awhile,
Elene; Judith; Athelstan, or the Fight at Brunanburh; Byrhtnoth, or the Fight at Maldon; and the Dream of the Rood Anglo-Saxon Poems Anonymous 1878
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At this moment I have not the sword by me, but if you will go into yonder tea-house and wait awhile,
Tales of Old Japan Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale 1876
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A whole white world of revival awaits May's whisper awhile,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Of his armor and war-cloak and garments, he leaned there awhile,
An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869
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