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‘Pardon me!’ said Mr. Micawber, with an air of constraint,

David Copperfield 2007
And bear off what thou wilt, sans grudging or constraint,

The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III Anonymous 1879
His gestures, his manner, showed trace of it in a certain constraint,

The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868
Your clinging hand from hers with rude constraint,

Bitter-Sweet 1850
To do so, a ﬁ rm issues equity S (st) and purchases capital subject to its ﬁ nancing constraint,

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