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They sat around watching bush give the rich many tax welfare check,
Updated: WH, Senate Dems: No plans to use 'reconciliation' for health care 2009
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We are aware that you are short, round and disabled so keep your fiberwigs in check,
Dear Carl 2010
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With it, the heavy hand of finance capital in check,
Progressive Ideas Network: You Want Reform? Will You Take Revolution? 2009
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Don't go a-missing reveille; and be in bed by check,
Rhymes of the Rookies W. E. Christian
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Then they called their Uncle Edward and they blew without a check,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919 Various
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O this strange passion for decrees nothing on earth can check,
Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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The mating process then is: (2) Kt-f7+, K-g8; (3) Kt-h6 double check,
Chess and Checkers : the Way to Mastership Edward Lasker 1933
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As the flag of France swung to the breeze and fluttered without check,
Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Charles Haven Ladd Johnston 1910
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I've planned a little burglary and forged a little check,
A Nonsense Anthology Carolyn Wells 1902
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They think that this fear of being lost will act as a check,
God's Plan with Men 1900
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