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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.
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It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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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
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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
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It was even a sort of love-offering to start off by telling the worst.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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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
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Most holy Satyr, like a goat, hear this our song, accept our leaves, love-offering, return our hymn; like echo fling
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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
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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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