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I have not bee wanting to use all my interest with my beloved friend, to induce her to forgive and be reconciled to your kinsman,
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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After kissing each other very lovingly, and when they were just in the act of parting, the Bailie, in the fulness of his heart, and with a faltering voice, assured his kinsman,
Rob Roy 2005
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I mean, dear madam, that I may be allowed to subscribe myself, your ever affectionate and obliged kinsman,
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Afterwards he retired to his native country, without the honour of a Degree, and settled at Smeeth, where he found great encouragement in his studies from his kinsman,
Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster Thomas Potts
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His mark he miss'd shooting, and shot down his kinsman,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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With regard to what you consult me about at the present moment, I am not against his superintending the feast of the priests, in the games of Mars, if he will suffer himself to be governed by his kinsman,
De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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There were many attendants who bound up his kinsman,
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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Among her numerous correspondents at this date, probably few had been more frequently in her thoughts during the past two years than her kinsman,
The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1 A. M. W. [Compiler] Stirling
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There were many about there who bound up his kinsman,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Then to heart laid the good one, the Hygelac's kinsman,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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