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For she was a woman now, who had seen the great world, who had refused both titles and estates,
Richard Carvel — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909
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For she was a woman now, who had seen the great world, who had refused both titles and estates,
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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During the five years preceding the Revolutionary War more than thirty thousand Ulstermen crossed the ocean and arrived in America just in time and in just the right frame of mind to return King George's compliment in kind, by helping to deprive him of his American estates,
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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Records are rarely kept of the ages of those born upon our estates,
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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When the carriage reached a spot where two roads forked, leading to adjacent estates,
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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The youngest of the four brothers, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich v. Bismarck, had retired from the army at an early age: he was a quiet, kindly man of domestic tastes; on the division of the estates,
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Headlam, James W 1899
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Grants were made by the Government in aid of local burdens, cottages were improved although the landowners 'capital was constantly dwindling, Settled Land Acts assisted the transfer of limited estates,
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It was broken in pieces and thrown aside when the Rue Royale was created, but was later put together by one of the good mayors of Tours and now stands on the Place du Grand Marché, a lasting monument to the Baron de Semblançay, treasurer under Francis I, who was accused of malversation, hanged at Montfaucon and his estates,
In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886
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This assistance was not sufficient, and, not being able to sell my estates,
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After the death of her father, Shabelsky, who was a landowner with no other children, she was left with several estates,
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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