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PRENDERGAST: When I got my calum (ph) in 1999, in the summer, in June, I had some relatives from California come with me, and they were all thrilled.
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Let the calum - niators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and hence - forth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 1845
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I felt, in common with the rest of the Profession, the immediate necessity of repelling so calum - nious a charge; and naturally expected that Mr. Coleman (as Head of the Department) would at least see tlie necessity of making some reply. —
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No calum - nious or iniquitous prosecution, no attempt to pervert the forms of law to the purposes of oppression, ever eluded his penetration, or escaped his just resentment.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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O! calum - niated crufaders, how rational and mode - rate were your objects! —
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On which charge I cannot avoid obfcrving that this vague and general accufation, which reprefents as a ufual cuftom proper to be noticed in a lift of annual favours what can only be fupported by a fingle example, which at the fame time is ill chofcn, and dittorted in the appH« - catron*, can only enter into the account of calum - nieSj which is more than equal to that of truths.
Considerations on the Present and Future State of France Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1791
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PetUia* nus Epi/copus dixit: Non de ipfo dilhim eft, calum - niofe agis: de altero fuggeftum eft.
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Need I call to the recollection of this honorable Committee, the base attempts which have been made use of, to calum - niate and traduce some of the fairest characters that have appeared during our glorious struggle for liberty and independence?
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Anaxagoram prsedixide lapidem e fble cafurum; qui 8c poft calum fuerit cultus.
Lucii Caecilii Firmiani Lactantii De mortibus persecutorum, cum notis Stephani Baluzii ... Lactantius, Paul Bauldri, Etienne Baluze , Nicolas Thoynard , Johan Columbus , Thomas Spark , Joannes Georgius Graevius, Gisbertus Cuperus, Elias Boherellus, Thomas Gale 1692
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CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland Ltd. mailto: calum dot benson at oracle dot com Solaris Desktop Team
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