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Santa Anna's government showed a greater jealousy of the American settlers than any previous one had done; their prayer, that the province they had colonized might be erected into a state of the Mexican union, was utterly disregarded, and its bearer,
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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The bishop received and read his letter of introduction and thus addressed its bearer,
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart 1899
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The paper is a certificate, certifying that the bearer,
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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There was something extraordinary in this belt bearer,
The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky 1890
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Conscious of the fact that, for the first time in his life, he had failed to execute the mission intrusted to him, and extremely doubtful as to the reception which would be accorded to the message of which he was the unwilling bearer,
The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886
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So in the twin Epistle sent at the same time and by the same bearer,
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Know ye, I have appointed, and by these presents do appoint the bearer,
The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859
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I must respectfully suggest that there must be some mistake here, and I have sent to you the bearer,
The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter Raphael Semmes 1843
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Two or three days later an Italian called on me, and gave me a letter from my friend Baletti, which recommended the bearer,
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The GOP itself opened this Pandora's box of hate and violence, and their standard bearer,
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