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  • Mon 10/05/09 6: 06 PM the fact that this girl just got to waltz into this, while thousands of fashion and design students everywhere would KILL for this kind of oppertunity … oh it makes me so mad.

    Quelle horreur! Lindsay Lohan's disastrous Paris debut | EW.com 2009

  • Seems Westminsters resident protestor had a lot to say for himself as well In over 20 years of service, and the "oppertunity" to get caught up in every conflict going during that time, some a couple of times, I have never had to attend a home comming parade, would I have liked to, not sure, could I have handled it if some t**t had started to spout this kind of shite?

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Because he had heard “a circumstantial acct. of my death and dying speech, I take this early oppertunity of contradicting both, and of assuring you that I now exist and appear in the land of the living by the miraculous care of Providence.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • My heart sank, but I knew that there was still well over a week left in the season and another oppertunity would surely arrive.

    My first deer 2009

  • Here is A Letter properly full for you it is from father to you, and as it Came to us first I took the oppertunity of writing a few words, though I have not much to say, except that we are all Very well, and that we Received this letter this morning which is to be sent to you.

    Letter 253 2009

  • Besides his “laudable desire” to serve king and country, Washington gushed, he wanted “nothing more earnestly than to attain a small degree of knowledge in the military art: and believing a more favourable oppertunity cannot be wished than serving under a gentleman of his Excellencys known ability and experience,” he accepted the appointment.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • My heart sank, but I knew that there was still well over a week left in the season and another oppertunity would surely arrive.

    My first deer 2009

  • “I have now a good oppertunity, and shall not neglect it,” he said, “of forming an acquaintance, which may be serviceable hereafter, if I can find it worth while pushing my fortune in the military way.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Mr Shield has recieved the words of the Songs some weeks; And hitherto has given no determinate answer, but wrote to require an interview without stating the time, and I have met 'Not at home' at his door once allready and wait for some oppertunity of seeing him.

    Letter 258 2009

  • Gist should assure the sachems that they would receive provisions, “and that we shall take every oppertunity to testify the love we bear them.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

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