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Examples
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This brings me to my point; and naturally leads me (if the see-saw of this desobligeant will but let me get on) into the efficient as well as final causes of travelling —
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Traveller, of a preface wrote in a desobligeant. —
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When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the desobligeant, because I saw the monk in close conference with a lady just arrived at the inn — I told him the truth, — but
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Franciscan, whom I saw on the opposite side of the court, in conference with a lady just arrived at the inn, — I drew the taffeta curtain betwixt us, and being determined to write my journey, I took out my pen and ink and wrote the preface to it in the desobligeant.
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I had wrote myself pretty well out of conceit with the desobligeant, and Mons.
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I had wrote myself pretty well out of conceit with the desobligeant, and Mons.
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When I told the reader that I did not care to get out of the desobligeant, because I saw the monk in close conference with a lady just arrived at the inn - I told him the truth, - but I did not tell him the whole truth; for I was as full as much restrained by the appearance and figure of the lady he was talking to.
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- I never heard, said the other, who was a Simple Traveller, of a preface wrote in a desobligeant.
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Dessein open'd the door of the Remise, was another old tatter'd desobligeant; and notwithstanding it was the exact picture of that which had hit my fancy so much in the coach-yard but an hour before, - the very sight of it stirr'd up a disagreeable sensation within me now; and
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Dessein's breast, I would inevitably make a point of getting rid of this unfortunate desobligeant; - it stands swinging reproaches at you every time you pass by it.
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