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But some of Hollywood's best-known names haven't made the list, ranging from NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson -- who might seem an unlikely candidate with movies like "The Tooth Fairy," but who is, after all, a box office favou
www.kyivpost.com 2010
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Flavour enhancers: A favou-rite of mine is adding a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg in my coffee.
unknown title 2009
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Flavour enhancers: A favou-rite of mine is adding a pinch of cinnamon or nutmeg in my coffee.
nst online 2009
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And writers, capa - ble of doing good service by a laborious union of facts, are compelled to waste their exertions, in imitating those favou - rite turns of expression, which they can never incorporate with their own diction, by the strongest mechanical efforts.
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The reception he met with, the plea - sures that were procured him, not being able to triumph over his love, he came back to Valenciennes to his mistrefs; but Hymen was not more favou - rable to him than Cupid.
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X private letter iof - Stephen or Chartres attefts his admiration of the empe - ror, the mod excellent and liberal of men, who taught him to believe that he was a favou-v rite, and promifed to educate and eftablifh his youngeft fon.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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This ordinance gave the people impreffions fomewhat more favou - rable concerning their ferocious tyrant, and was in itfelf good. .and ufeful; the roads became fate, and the country people could go and come, without danger, to their markets, where they might barter their mutual products.
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Its antipa - thy to France revived by the declaration in favou r of A me - rica, 78. —
History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 1785
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But when be came before the King, he pleaded his own innocence fo artfolly, imd blamed his accufers with fuch plaufibility of truth, that the Emperor, believing the whole proceeded from the difgnft of their being commanded by his favou - rite, he recalled them; and notwithftanding they gave tmdoubted proofs of their affertions, he was determined to Kften to nothing agaihft this vile catamite.
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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Near — wicked, I always think in a wordworth’s of that primed favou — rite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A. G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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