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  • The 2012 Palin campaign has started by asking for the love-offering up front and insists the event sign a rider.

    Matt Osborne: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome��� 2009

  • It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • He'd intended this to be a love-offering, and instead the thing had turned into a viper and bitten them both.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • He'd intended this to be a love-offering, and instead the thing had turned into a viper and bitten them both.

    Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

  • It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • The least mercenary woman on earth must feel a glow at her heart and a fonder recognition of her sweetheart's worth when he lays a love-offering at her feet.

    April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

  • Most holy Satyr, like a goat, hear this our song, accept our leaves, love-offering, return our hymn; like echo fling

    American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany Various

  • He remembered the cleric favourably, and sent him "two loaves of sugar," as a sort of keepsake, or love-offering.

    On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922

  • He was the victim of the god of money, and he was blind, and he could see no beauty or grace in this passionate love-offering of an, emancipated child of God.

    Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers 1817-1893 1913

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