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  • In spiteof my best efforts, I couldn't track it down anywhere, so I'd suggest pappardelle instead.

    Food for Fort: Homemade Tabasco-style sauce, gluten-free breadcrumbs and unusual pasta 2010

  • But, when I relaxed in that 'depression position', waiting for the tears to roll, or whatever, I could not help realize that I was really happy and felt greatin-spiteof the great loss, etc.

    On Eating Apples 2009

  • Buck Preston, twenty years old in 1862, was, in spiteof her beauty, singularly good-natured, with an excellent disposition.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Buck Preston, twenty years old in 1862, was, in spiteof her beauty, singularly good-natured, with an excellent disposition.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Buck Preston, twenty years old in 1862, was, in spiteof her beauty, singularly good-natured, with an excellent disposition.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Buck Preston, twenty years old in 1862, was, in spiteof her beauty, singularly good-natured, with an excellent disposition.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Buck Preston, twenty years old in 1862, was, in spiteof her beauty, singularly good-natured, with an excellent disposition.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • To me it is better to face up to reality than to be in constant pursuit of that illusive state of being-happy-in-spiteof-everything.

    Why Not Apply Tomorrow's Disciplines Today? 1968

  • Robespierre declared before the Convention "that allthe sans-culottes will be paid at the expense of the public treasury, which will be fed by the rich," and in spiteof requisitions and the guillotine the treasury remained empty.

    The Psychology of Revolution 1913

  • "There is something mankind can never destroy in spiteof an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

    Radclyffe Hall, Sapphism, Sexology, and Speech Rights 2007

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