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CHARONQui est cet importun qui si pressé mappelle?
Sonnet 1920
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I will feize every opportunity of importun - ing, of conjuring the Houfc, if they have any r«'erence for the laws, utterly to relbind this unconfticutional and iniquitous refolutioh.
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I will fcize every opportunity of importun - ing, of conjuring the Houfe, if they have any reverence for the laws, utterly to refcind this unconftitutional and iniquitous refolution.
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& a s'asseoir: car le plaisir que l'on prend aux ciuilitez & aux complimens, est tout a fait importun.
George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890
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[25] "Un savant écrivoit à un ami, et un importun étoit à côté de lui, qui regardoit par dessus l'épaule ce qu'il écrivoit.
Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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