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My personal opinion is that the minute-men should be the ones prosecuted.
yet more assholes on the loose impetuousme 2005
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And lately it seems, they have these minute-men on the news.
yet more assholes on the loose impetuousme 2005
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One thing I've also yet to see, is anyone asking these minute-men outright, just what exactly is their goal?
yet more assholes on the loose impetuousme 2005
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At two or three points, some companies of minute-men attacked the enemy in the open field, and killed a considerable number of them.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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We arrived there about half-past three in the morning, and found the bells ringing, cannons firing, and about a hundred minute-men drawn up in front of the meeting-house, waiting the approach of the enemy.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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Mr. Appleton spoke of the flag carried by the minute-men of Bedford to
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The woods were swarming with minute-men; and, if they waited, their retreat would have been cut off.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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The people of our province took the matter into their own hands, and organized a body of minute-men without orders.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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Congress met, and they ordered that a large body of minute-men should be enrolled, so as to be prepared for any attack.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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Lexington, we met a man who told us that the minute-men of Lexington were out, but he didn't think there would be much of a fight.
The Yankee Tea-party Or, Boston in 1773 Henry C. Watson
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