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Besides all such as are in deos contumeliosi, blaspheme, contemn, neglect God, or scoff at him, as the poets feign of Salmoneus, that would in derision imitate Jupiter's thunder, he was precipitated for his pains,
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With such doth he heal men, and take away their pains,
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“You have been pleased to say,” I continued, growing angry as I spoke, and being a fool therefore for my pains,
The Virginians 2006
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Nurture can never stick; [445-48] on whom my pains,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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A class in the front, with their readers, were telling, with difficult pains,
Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various
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For those beasts and those sons to provide with such pains,
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Poor Heaven-wept child of nature's joys and pains,
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Half forgets, in its wreck, all the pangs of her pains,
War Poetry of the South Various
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I never rested day or night until, after infinite labor and pains,
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Not as if counting the cost, and preferring the ease to the pains,
Of Consummation 1917
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