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  • I know neither of the parties, and neither of the advocates; but having, in the course of four and twenty years, seen calumny and injustice so often triumph,

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • As often as any of these men expressed their sympathy with the prisoners, whose death by the hangman all looked upon as certain, McCoy would reply in accents of triumph,

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • “I like him still and love him well,” she had said to herself with something almost of triumph,

    Phineas Finn 2004

  • And when his soldiers, who had not received as large rewards as they had expected, began to clamor, and interrupt the triumph,

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • In some parts of the country, also, the dead are carried to the grave with the singing of psalms and hymns: a kind of triumph,

    The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

  • But for you our hopes were great, and great the triumph,

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • "Ah," said his wife, shaking her head in a kind of doleful triumph,

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

    Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration Margaret Bird Steinmetz

  • "Of which we are entirely destitute," said Max, with an air of triumph,

    The Island Home Richard Archer

  • "Yes; and _I_ undertake to say," cried Joseph, in a tone of triumph,

    The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

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