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  • An angel's tongue, the wisdom and insight of the loftiest of the sages, would be required to describe all the wealth of meaning contained in the sublime spiritual process which we designate by the word pardon.

    The Essentials of Spirituality Felix Adler 1892

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    The Seattle Times 2010

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    Kansas City Star: Front Page 2010

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • He told Witt that when the Kid was awaiting trial in Brady's killing, "he wrote four letters for aid, but never used the word pardon."

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • And that mercy which thy servant Augustine apprehends when he says to thee, "Thou hast forgiven me those sins which I have done, and those sins which only by thy grace I have not done": they were done in our inclination to them, and even that inclination needs thy mercy, and that mercy he calls a pardon.

    Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601

  • Sixthly, after he and his friend are gone the jailers inspect the so-called pardon.

    The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896

  • It prompted the government to introduce a bill in the House of Commons this week that would prevent sex offenders who harmed children and those convicted of more than three serious crimes from obtaining a so-called pardon.

    Dose.ca Music briefs 2010

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