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  • They objected distance and danger; the latter, as Macpherson owns, to heighten the value of the ser-vice.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The danger endeared the doctor to Mr. Grandison; a relief so seasonable endeared Mr. Grandison to the doctor; to them both Mr. Beau-champ, who would not stir from Athens, till he had seen him delivered; having busied himself in the interim, in the best manner he could (though he was obliged to use caution and secrecy) to do him ser-vice, and to suspend the fatal blow.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Be this as it may, madam, said she, I have no ser-vice for Mr. Beauchamp: but if your ladyship, your sister, and your two lords, will allow me to cultivate your friendship, you will do me honour.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I am the unhappy man who was hired into the ser-vice of the best of young ladies: whom I was the means of betraying into the power of Sir

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • I have, said I, a great desire to do you ser-vice.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Answering the call of your community through public ser-vice, volunteerism, personal commitment and sharing the fruits of your own success with those who need help.

    The Ontario Budget 2002

  • An enemy who employs 4GW tactics views whatever action he takes as one prong of a sustained campaign in the ser-vice of a political objective (and a political objective, despite all the focus on the bin Laden organization's religious zeal, is something bin Laden has).

    Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

  • An enemy who employs 4GW tactics views whatever action he takes as one prong of a sustained campaign in the ser-vice of a political objective (and a political objective, despite all the focus on the bin Laden organization's religious zeal, is something bin Laden has).

    Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

  • In 1854, the British army went into the Crimean War without a field commissariat, an effective system of supply, a corps of service troops, or an ambulance corps or medical ser-vice.

    The War Against War Craig, Gordon A. 1999

  • While reading the ser-vice over a poor young man he had nursed many weeks he took cold.

    The Man Between, an International Romance Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

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