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After riding from home to home collecting charite' for the gumbo pot, revelers head to the cemetery to pay their respects to a lost friend.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Carnival Time for Treme: I Know Your Heart Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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After riding from home to home collecting charite' for the gumbo pot, revelers head to the cemetery to pay their respects to a lost friend.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Carnival Time for Treme: I Know Your Heart Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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After riding from home to home collecting charite' for the gumbo pot, revelers head to the cemetery to pay their respects to a lost friend.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Carnival Time for Treme: I Know Your Heart Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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After riding from home to home collecting charite' for the gumbo pot, revelers head to the cemetery to pay their respects to a lost friend.
Karen Dalton-Beninato: Carnival Time for Treme: I Know Your Heart Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011
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+P+ar seinte charite biddeð a pateR nost {er} for iohan þ̵ þeos boc w {ra} t.
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall
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To Wetheringsett Church a chaplain of Bury carefully reserves "a book called Fasiculus Mors [Fasciculus morum], to lye in the chauncell, for priests to occupye ther tyme when it shall please them, praying them to have my soule in remembraunce as it shall please them of their charite" (1519).
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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“C'est une vraie charite que vous me faites de venir me voir.”
Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906
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I know Madame de Treymes slightly -- I have met her at Fanny's -- but she never remembers the fact except when she wants me to go to one of her ventes de charite.
Madame de Treymes. 1906
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I know Madame de Treymes slightly -- I have met her at Fanny's -- but she never remembers the fact except when she wants me to go to one of her _ventes de charite_.
Madame De Treymes Edith Wharton 1899
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The soeurs de charite, who are of all Catholic nations, are organised entirely by the French.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898
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