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Moral conscience requires that, in every occasion,
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Wineapple, brightens not only the pale figures of the poet and the hitherto elusive colonel but the poems for which, upon occasion,
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“Mistress Annot Lyle,” said he, upon the present occasion,
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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The solemnities at the nuptial ceremony, which took place in the town of Jedburgh, were very great and remarkable, and particularly when, amidst the display of a pageant which was exhibited on the occasion,
Castle Dangerous 2008
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Out of these causes Rodericus defines it with Areteus, to be angorem animi, a vexation of the mind, a sudden sorrow from a small, light, or no occasion,
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December 08, 2007 the dogs barking in the moonless night, mourning the inauspiciousness of the occasion,
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To a lady who disapproved of my visiting her, he said on a former occasion,
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Heaven for these hopes of his recovery, than Mr. Blifil drew near, with a very dejected aspect, and having applied his handkerchief to his eye, either to wipe away his tears, or to do as Ovid somewhere expresses himself on another occasion,
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Superior, and to renew, from time to time, the various arguments by which he endeavoured to show, that, in appearing as champion on this occasion,
Ivanhoe 2004
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Comrades, thank you for inviting me to this wonderful occasion,
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