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  • They may play the audio in the car and read the book at lesure but does this flip floppin actually engage or does it distract and break the experience?

    Becareful What You Wish For - NelsonFree Martyn Daniels 2009

  • Now all they have to do, is programme missiles for the location of such defensive instalations and destroy them at their lesure/will.

    Did Israeli Jets Violate Syrian Airspace to Test New Russian Defense Technology Also In Iran 2007

  • ¶ Wherefore after theyr example obtaynyng a lytle lesure, I red ouer sundrye treatises, as wel of those which wrot long ago, as of other now in our daies: fyndynge amonge them some to haue wrytten ouer brieflye, some confuselye, and falselye some.

    A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry

  • But I 's got a little lesure, so I teks my pen in han '

    The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Yester day & to day has bin Very Bussiy with us and Consequently I have but a few lesure moments to write to you you must not Think I did not want to write you a long letter for I did it is a greate plesure for me to write to you

    Augusta County: David H. Evans to Mary Anna Sibert, March 24, 1868 David H. Evans 1868

  • I maruayle that nature shuld haue so moche lesure, so to counterfayt the nature of althynges.

    The Pilgrimage of Pure Devotion Desiderius Erasmus 1502

  • He recommends physical therapy, and says he'll leave samples of celebrex at the reception desk for me to pick up at my lesure.

    Evilsciencechick 2008

  • Whereupon without more adoe, I determined to leaue this place vntill another time, that I might more quietly at lesure looke vpon the same, and to prepare my selfe to beholde the woonderfull worke of the gate: and thus descending downe I issued foorth of the vnbowelled monster, an inuention past imagination, and an excessiue labour and bolde attempt to euacuate such a hard substance ouer that other stones be, the workemanship within as curious as that without.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

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