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The day before yesterday I did something I've been meaning to do since I retired,
11/16/08: Month go voom klages 2008
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Acquired by the Yankees from Seattle after Mattingly retired,
USATODAY.com 2004
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General Secretary-Treasurer of the union, who is now retired,
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One night, long after the other inmates of the house had retired,
Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham
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Nevertheless, when presently the cowman blew out the light, and retired,
The Young Railroaders Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity Francis Lovell Coombs
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With that which, but [374-25] by being so retired,
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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As soon as it was ascertained that the enemy had retired,
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_ Having left Ulysses behind her, Nausicaa returns home, where her chariot is unloaded; but shortly after she has retired,
The Book of the Epic 1894
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Dick forgot that it was raining heavily, and ran down to the great bed of boulders at the end of the village, where, as the huge waves came in, they drove up the massive stones, which varied in size from that of a man's head to that of a Cheshire cheese, sending them some distance up towards the cliff, and then, as the wave retired,
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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After the signatures had been affixed, and the witnesses had retired,
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