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I know you will not counsel your master to abuse such an opportunity as fortune, and, to speak plain,
Quentin Durward 2008
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They know of toil and the end of toil, they know God's Law is plain,
stormtiger Diary Entry stormtiger 2008
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Not the pointed roofs of Pekin, not the flat, unvaried plain,
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005
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The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, but where he has digged it too plain,
waterdiluted Diary Entry waterdiluted 2006
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These lightly skimming, when they swept the plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Go search your slaughtered chiefs on yonder plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Loud groans proclaim his progress through the plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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The immortals guard him through the dreadful plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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From troop to troop he toils through all the plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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Through the black horrors of the ensanguined plain,
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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