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It was obvious that Crespas was going over the progress reports from the mities and adjacent areas, probably for the last quarter, and apparently he knew exactly what he was doing.
The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980
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[17] This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infir - mities and bore our diseases."
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No won - der then if indeed they are found to take pleasure in infir - mities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake.
Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion 1812
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There is one disposition of the mind which may be confounded with that we would wish to inspire - The sensation of these cala - mities may be so strong in a soul, as to overspread the mind with a total gloom and dejection.
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CAMPAIGNS IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL, principled invader is endeavouring to lull into a dangerous security, while his hordes are creating, in every direction, new terrors to war, new enor - mities to vice.
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At the same time, Avarice and Ambi - tion were born, introducing into society innumerable cala - mities.
Poetics; Or a Series of Poems and Disquisitions on Poetry ... George Dyer 1812
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Of his infir - mities he gives a most affecting proof in a short letter to earl Gower, dated Jan. 12 of that year.
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There is also annexed an answer from Lady Tyrrel to an enquiry concerning her father's predictions, in which she confirms the fact of his frequently foretelling approaching cala - mities, and even adds the circumstance of his telling her "that London would in a short time be burnt to a cinder."
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The confederates, afraid of i being furrounded, and of being reduced to extre - mities during fo advanced a feafon, thought proper to retreat.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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He entered into a recapitulation of the dreadful enor« mities of the flave trade, the con* fideration of which had produced the refolutian, - «~ the cruelties to the unhappy Africans, the injury to civilization, and the prodigious lofs of Britiih feamen in the trade.
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and ... 1796
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