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She thought she was upon the point of becoming a marchioness, when his lordship was again sent into what he called banishment.
Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Marshal, the ambassador at Ballygorry, would pine to death in Italian banishment.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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Marshal, the ambassador at Ballygorry, would pine to death in Italian banishment.
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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In point of power and revenue, such a deanery might be esteemed no inconsiderable promotion; but to an ambitious mind, whose perpetual view was a settlement in England, a dignity in any other country must appear only a profitable and an honourable kind of banishment.
The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753
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He wants to play the good guy, but the citizens have their own ways of dispensing justice, and besides, there's a skeleton in Robert's closet - he's been in trouble, and his new assignment is a kind of banishment.
SFGate: Top News Stories Walter Addiego 2010
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Indeed, one longtime Gannett journalist who did not want her name used says employees at her newspaper are referring to the furlough as "banishment."
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Okay, if admonishing doesn't work, the next measure is "banishment."
Mick Hartley 2009
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