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  • Had he come into conflict with the university authorities? — he, her sober-minded, order-loving brother?

    Two Tales of Old Strasbourg 2003

  • They doubtless hate papa, who has to sentence them to prison, and they are foes of all order-loving men and women in this region.

    The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

  • I have scant sympathy with this mock humanitarianism, a mock humanitarianism which is no more alien to the spirit of true religion than it is to the true spirit of civilization, which would prevent the great, free, liberty and order-loving races of the earth doing their duty in the world's waste spaces because there must needs be some rough surgery at the outset.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

  • "Cobbler" Horn, and a growing vexation to his sister's order-loving soul.

    The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn J. W. Keyworth

  • The Northern fifth is industrious, order-loving, prosperous, Protestant, and British in sentiment.

    The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Various

  • Many a hardened backwoods sinner there forever forsook his evil ways and became an order-loving and respectable citizen, helping to form that civilization of which the

    The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

  • Through the medium of the press, the details of these heart-rending cruelties were widely disseminated, and aroused the just indignation of all peaceful and order-loving citizens.

    Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman

  • Very gave his prisoner to others, and threw himself in front of the order-loving people.

    The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

  • He had become law-abiding and order-loving, and possessed of an intelligent desire to be free.

    The Colored Regulars in the United States Army T. G. Steward

  • As to _why_ it should be so, we cannot tell, save as the result of deliberate design and as an expression of the order-loving mind of the God of nature.

    Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation George McCready Price

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