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  • Moral conscience requires that, in every occasion,

    Douglas Kmiec comes out against Proposition 8... 2009

  • Wineapple, brightens not only the pale figures of the poet and the hitherto elusive colonel but the poems for which, upon occasion,

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • “Mistress Annot Lyle,” said he, upon the present occasion,

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • 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

  • 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,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • December 08, 2007 the dogs barking in the moonless night, mourning the inauspiciousness of the occasion,

    A demise or a beginning.. 2007

  • To a lady who disapproved of my visiting her, he said on a former occasion,

    The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. 2004

  • 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,

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • 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

  • Comrades, thank you for inviting me to this wonderful occasion,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

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