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Saw also the most emaciated baby imaginable; puny; nine months; mother dead; lives on "genade" (mercy) of other mothers whose babies are dead; a regular "kannie dood" (literally, a "won't die").
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And items like nuclear bombs, cluster bombs, MANPADS, C-4 stockpiles, grenades, genade launchers, vats of anthrax spores and nerve gas, artillery - though it all has "valid military use" would fall in the category of what a militia bought and stored in common..not an individual weapon.
Let's talk about guns. Ann Althouse 2007
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The last hand grenade I knew anything about (WW II) was to pull the pin, hold the genade (live) in the hand until the count of ten, then release it.
Think Progress » O’Reilly on Blogosphere: ‘I’d Go in With A Hand Grenade’ 2006
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He said it was through "mercy" (slegs genade) that only 16 people died when Phama fired on the IFP supporters.
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Met die hulp en genade van Hom wat beskik oor die lotgevalle van ons almal, kan elke individu 'n verskil maak in die bou van' n beter Suid-Afrika.
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Visited old Mrs. Dussels, mother of Mrs. Grobelaar -- "zoo tevreden, zoo stil, zoo olijmoedig, door God's genade" (So content, so quiet, so glad, through God's grace).
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"Nonxuba then told to me to throw the hand-genade and to shoot to kill.
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Saw also the most emaciated baby imaginable; puny; nine months; mother dead; lives on “genade” (mercy) of other mothers whose babies are dead; a regular “kannie dood” (literally, a “won't die ").
Woman's Endurance L, A D 1904
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Visited old Mrs. Dussels, mother of Mrs. Grobelaar ” “zoo tevreden, zoo stil, zoo olijmoedig, door God's genade” (So content, so quiet, so glad, through God's grace).
Woman's Endurance L, A D 1904
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