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Examples
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When with their fearful tongues they shall confess,
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Now, we've got some people here who are -- I have to confess,
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry ITY National Archives 1995
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For this reason, that thus the baptizers might assert, and the baptized confess,
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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-- Will you allow me to enter my protest against the terms "extremely beautiful and magnificent," applied by your respectable correspondents to the _Dies Iræ_, which, I confess,
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But notwithstanding so general a consent of men in this point, I confess,
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry M. M. Pattison Muir
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We both jumped up and he flew at me and caught my sleeve in his teeth -- for a moment, I confess,
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918
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For the first month it was a honeymoon jest to beg prettily, to confess,
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Rightly must all people/of the high knight confess,
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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Nicolas appears to us, should have taken part in juggling tricks of such dreadful impiety in order to persuade his associates that the course he judged best was prescribed to them by Heaven, is, I confess,
The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons 1820-1884 1905
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Even a cynical opportunist like Lord Beaconsfield had to confess,
The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster Harold Begbie 1900
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