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Landlords; if I pray'd in the Temple, it was deem'd Hypocrisy; if I treated my Friends, it was Lewdness; if I requir'd any just Debt, it was
Exilius 2008
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Duty and Gratitude requir'd a ready Submission to the King, who was not only my Master and Benefactor, but graciously left it to me to make a Merit of Necessity; for such it was, his Majesty having us both in his Power.
Exilius 2008
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Jewels to raise it for that use: She believing her self his Wife, parted with every thing he requir'd; and as soon as the Goods should be discharg'd, they were to make a glorious publick Wedding.
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Jewels to raise it for that use: She believing her self his Wife, parted with every thing he requir'd; and as soon as the Goods should be discharg'd, they were to make a glorious publick Wedding.
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My own Income fell below that requir'd by the Game Act not a few times, and I had to make do to keep up Appearances, as they say.
Ms. Eythorsdottir made a "chandelier" of "beads of glucose that clung to twine and caught the natural light" designed to disintegrate in 5 months. Ann Althouse 2008
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Before the Year was ended, which Marcellus requir'd for the improving his Studies, the Preparations were making for the Asian
Exilius 2008
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Incidentally, the paragraph just prior to the Count's appearance is interesting from a linguistic standpoint:His Lordship, as Mason relates, requir'd a People who liv'd in quite another relation to Time, one that did not, like our own, hold at its heart the terror of Time's passage, far more preferably, Indifference to it, pure and transparent as possible.
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Verses, but his mind was of such a peculiar Turn, that it requir'd some greater Design, and more laborious to occupy it, or else it would not be sufficiently engag'd to be delighted.
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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Mastership in Cookery is requir'd to make the Pudding
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That there be always an apparent Chain or Connexion, or else an obvious Agreement or Contrast, between the two Subjects, is absolutely requir'd, in order that the _Auxiliary_ one may be _justly_ introduced; otherwise, instead of WIT, there will only appear
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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