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The plaintiffs, which collectively invested $79 million in Wood River, said UBS earned profits by selling borrowed shares in Wood River's biggest single stock holding,
Fraud Suit 2008
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Three seconds after John LeClair was penalized for holding,
NHL - National Hockey League - Philadelphia vs. Washington 2002
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In her right hand, a shadowy shroud she was holding,
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With Detroit's Sergei Fedorov in the penalty box for holding,
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The original Bloxam, like the majority of our ancestors, had apparently a great dislike to an exposed situation; and either a supreme contempt for the science of sanitation, or a confused idea that water could be induced to run uphill, and so, not bothering his head on the subject of drainage, as indeed no one did in those days, he built his house in a hole, holding,
Belles and Ringers Hawley Smart
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A little while after, we went to Boulogne; where the English, seeing our army, left the forts which they were holding,
The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various
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The earls 'treasures let they the earth to be holding,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Confederates making frantic efforts to pierce the enemy's lines, and they, with equal courage and persistency, determined on holding,
History of Kershaw's Brigade D. Augustus Dickert
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Sometimes chiding a little his clumsy manner of holding,
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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But mine are the hands you shall dream that your own are holding,
Vigils 1921
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