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  • Grandfather will not hear a word, and he just sputters and says 'demnation' when I try to tell him about you; but grandmother will listen, and I talk to her of you and Medicine Woods by the hour.

    The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • This was, no doubt, the law that made possible the prosecution, and in certain cases the con - demnation, of philosophers living in Athens during the late fifth century and the fourth century B.C.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • No - where are they asserted absolutely as the 1277 con - demnation claims.

    DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968

  • The general effect of his con - demnation was to cause many who were uncritically accepting Aristotle's conclusions as demonstrated and necessarily true to question these.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • Brabant, and his contemporary Boethius of Dacia are the only two masters mentioned by name in the con - demnation, the list of heterodox propositions is so broad that it includes doctrines taught by Saint Thomas.

    DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968

  • And eco - nomics is an extreme case, because it deals with cost, the need to give up one good to get another; and the same prejudice doubtless underlies the popular con - demnation of trade, and the market organization of production and distribution.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • "I wouldn't mind admitting that you are a gentleman in a month or two," he said, "but it's a demnation humiliation to have it literally wrung from me to-night!"

    The Harvester 1911

  • But, David, I hope you never will get an idea that this would be a pleasant way for you to act, because it would not, and I never would have the courage to offer you the love I have come to find if you slammed a cane and yelled, ` demnation, 'at me.

    The Harvester 1911

  • Grandfather will not hear a word, and he just sputters and says ` demnation 'when I try to tell him about you; but grandmother will listen, and I talk to her of you and Medicine Woods by the hour.

    The Harvester 1911

  • "I wouldn't mind admitting that you are a gentleman in a month or two," he said, "but it's a demnation humiliation to have it literally wrung from me to-night!"

    The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

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