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  • "Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th 'quick," Prospero says of his enemies,

    Shakespeare and the Uses of Power Greenblatt, Stephen 2007

  • In those last years battling the sea and his enemies,

    Forbidden Enchantment Bruhns, Nina 2007

  • Those whose natures are: to associate with your enemies,

    Text of Letter to a Friend Nagarjuna 2006

  • The person who gives you this is faithful and may be trusted, and will guide you to a place where, God willing, I may safely give you the meeting, when I trust my kinsman and you will visit my poor house, where, in despite of my enemies,

    Rob Roy 2005

  • While the Rhodians were thus defending their city to the uttermost, Demetrius, who was not sorry for an excuse to retire, found one in the arrival of ambassadors from Athens, by whose mediation terms were made that the Rhodians should bind themselves to aid Antigonus and Demetrius against all enemies,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Having settled his affairs with the emperor and his enemies,

    The Violet Fairy Book 2003

  • The Truth and Reconciliation Commission would create a climate for the healing of wounds and for true conciliation among enemies,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • It was a fact too easy to forget when your job forced you to concentrate on a narrow group of enemies,

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • And if this be not enough, that the king and people whom he opposed were his enemies,

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • And you shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies,

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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