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I am pleased to report that the efforts of the police offers resulted in my neighbour being conforted by family before he died.
Police Response Times – A Serious Debate SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I respect African Americans as a race but I can not support a man, regardless of race, who will not tell the truth himself and when conforted with the truth calls another person names or says he/she is racist.
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As Christmas approaches and others suffer similar lapses in memory they may be conforted to know that they have been in good company.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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As Christmas approaches and others suffer similar lapses in memory they may be conforted to know that they have been in good company.
Black eyed Bishops 2006
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For he devoused the lelias on the fined and he conforted samp, tramp and marchint out of the drumbume of a narse.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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We shall surely feel his absence in the social and political life of this country, but we are conforted by the knowledge that his contribution to our people is immortal.
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Quein and Monsieur Dosell, [499] (who then was _a secretis mulierum_ in the Courte,) conforted thame, and willed thame to be quyet, for thei should see remeady or it was long.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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He spared not to viseit thame that lay in the verray extreamitie; he conforted thame as that he mycht in such a multitude; he caused minister all thingis necessarye to those that mycht use meat or drynk; and in that poynt was the Toune wonderouse beneficiall; for the poore was no more neglected then was the rich.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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The study of the strata which are so differently formed and arranged before our eyes, and of all that has been so variously dislocated, conforted, and upheaved, by mutual compression and volcanic force, leads the reflective observer, by simple analogies, to draw a comparison between the present and an age that has long passed.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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VATICAN CITY (May 16, 2010) -- Pope Benedict said he was conforted by the turnout of tens of thousands of people Sunday in St. Peter's Square to show solidarity over the clerical sex abuse scandal.
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