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So had that young man, when he roared again for discontent,
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"We've been working for fourteen long years," said an intelligent negro, in reply to a question as to the cause of the prevailing discontent,
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Colony, -- the women who faithfully performed, without any serious discontent,
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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Are you list'ning to murmur that tells the discontent,
The End Is Near 1930
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"Not entirely," added Ivanoff, with a droll expression of discontent,
Sanine Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev 1902
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But when Kate poured oil on the waters of his discontent,
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Yea, the voiceless wrath of the wretched and their unlearned discontent,
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell 1890
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"I wonder, Effie," said Mrs. Staunton in a tone of almost discontent,
A Girl in Ten Thousand L. T. Meade 1884
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Yea, the voiceless wrath of the wretched, and their unlearned discontent,
Poems By the Way William Morris 1865
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Something glad and good has left me here with sickening discontent,
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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