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selfsacrificing

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  • He'd known few elves as noble or selfsacrificing as the human, Sturm Brightblade.

    Hammer and Axe Parkinson, Dan 1985

  • He'd known few elves as noble or selfsacrificing as the human, Sturm Brightblade.

    Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985

  • He'd known few elves as noble or selfsacrificing as the human, Sturm Brightblade.

    Dragons of Winter Night Weis, Margaret 1985

  • The influence of a devoted mother and later the loving care of a selfsacrificing wife enabled him to pass without interruption through the continuous strait of secondary school and University, and he obtained his doctorate in 1865.

    Theodor Kocher - Biography 1967

  • Nor do I forget that to your selfsacrificing devotion I owe the fact that I recovered from the terrible wounds I received at their hands -- I discovered later something of what it meant to you to remain with me in the amphitheater of apes while your heart was urging you on to the coast.

    The Return of Tarzan 1913

  • You have been noble, and selfsacrificing, and brave.

    The Return of Tarzan 1913

  • If there had been no superior blooded class of blacks in the South, during the dark and uncertain days of the war, there would not have been the history of that band of noble selfsacrificing heroes, who guarded with untiring and unquestioned faith, the homes and honor of the families of the very men who were fighting to tighten their chains.

    The new man : twenty-nine years a slave, twenty-nine years a free man, 1895

  • Never did the state have a more devoted and selfsacrificing citizen.

    Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

  • Strong hands, selfsacrificing hands fastened the cable the women had made -- one end to the giant canoe, the other about an enormous boulder, a vast immovable rock as firm as the foundations of the world -- for might not the canoe with its priceless freight drift out, far out, to sea, and when the water subsided might not this ship of safety be leagues and leagues beyond the sight of land on the storm-driven Pacific?

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • "What kind of idiocy can make a once sensible demoness suddenly become caring, selfsacrificing, and dedicated to making her indifferent husband deliriously happy several times a day?

    Roc and a Hard Place Anthony, Piers 1995

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