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WASH POST: Aides discuss whether Rove should resig ...
11/03/2005 2005
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For example, the portuguese “o leite” milk becomes the spanish “la leche”, making learning a language properly frustating and time consuming, which made me resig myself to speaking spanish to my in-laws at a 5 year old level.
gender reassignment 2004
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Then he spoke, quietly, with a lot of resig nation in his voice.
Killing Floor Child, Lee 1997
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As I had nothing to do with Boston, and much to do with East Dennis, I preached on that place three Sundays in succession, and feeling became so intense that I handed in my resig - nation and prepared to depart.
The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929
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Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resig - nation towards the colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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Holmes shrugged his shoulders with a glance of comic resig - nation towards the colonel, and the talk drifted away into less dangerous channels.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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For God has many ways of saying to the troubled soul: "Be at peace"; and, certainly, Antonia had not anticipated the calmness and resig-nation which forbid her the tears she had bespoken.
Remember the Alamo 1888
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[(The Marchese and his lady) 29.2 (in time became resig) 9.2 (n) -0.8 (ed to the loss of their Everilda, and in)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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[(He cannot be said to be resig) 9.6 (n) -0.4 (ed, who mourns incessantly) 29.6 (, and who in obstinately)] TJ
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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[(Edward is found, that he lives, and resig) 9.6 (n) -0.4 (s himself to the will of his Maker; that his heart)] TJ
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