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The moment I brought my right arm to bear, the vicious horse had no chance with me; and if ever a horse was well paid for spite,
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Where ruffian slanderers wreak their coward spite,
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin
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"No, it is not," says she, fluttering suddenly with rage, "and I'll thank you, Messer Antonio," and that she said for spite,
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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You may bet he'll requite Your compassion with spite,
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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QUOTATION: The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
Quotations 1919
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James Matthews Legaré (18231859) 7504Go bow thy head in gentle spite,
Quotations 1919
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James Matthews Legaré (18231859) 1Go bow thy head in gentle spite,
Quotations James Matthews Legar 1919
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No! trouble and astonishment take hold of his solitary young man; he grows bitter against smiling villains, swears that he will not forget the spirit, and concludes with the significant ejaculation: The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,
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Wherein they are afraid of sprites and cankered witches 'spite,
In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World Various 1902
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Who could dream of wars and tumults, hate and envy, sin and spite,
My War Experiences in Two Continents Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon 1890
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