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  • Busy with other complaints, the captain had been slow to attend the details of his dismissal and the brig's purser was unavail-able until the water barrels and stores were replenished.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • When the night-dew and the mountain breeze had cooled my burning brow, and my thoughts had resumed their usual course, I realized that to pursue my perished happiness would be unavail-ing and unreasonable.

    A Hero of Our Time 1916

  • I will not promise to do better for the future, because the strongest resolutions are sometimes unavail

    Letter to John Hall, Philadelphia, November 21, 1806 1806

  • Litza, who was out of the of fi ce and unavail - Pilot James Vincent Jr., who was killed in Unauthorized duplication of the Hot Sheets is a violation of law. able for comment, has named Dr. Suzanne Mar - the crash, had accumulated 3,074 hours of total Call 1-800-793-6820 to subscribe tens as the interim state medical director.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Al - though these kinds of faults also need to be minimized, they are less severe than complete unavail - ability.

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  • Treatment for more than half of the estimated 14,000 Jamaicans with HIV who require intervention is currently unavail-able, says director of the National HIV/STI Programme, Dr Kevin Harvey.

    Jamaica Gleaner Online 2009

  • Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0

    nixCraft Linux Sys Admin Blog 2009

  • It gives pain to a good-natured reader, to see his author engaged in such unavail - ing struggles; for some persons can no more acquire a good style, than a grace - ful manner, and in both instances, the affectation of unattainable graces onlv adds distortion to clownishness.

    Illustrations of Sterne, with other essays and verses 1812

  • Wishful to profit by the circumstance; we endeavor to dissipate the illusion; we summons the man to go back to the first source of his errors; we talk; we prove; we reason; but all is unavail - ing care; as it commonly happens that the aged talk of fortner times, and recollect the facts which struck them in their youth, Avhile present occurrences leave no trace on the memory, so the old ideas continually run in tiieir mind.

    Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague 1812

  • It shall be void if a greater number of persons than is therein specified are accommodated or em - ployed, or assemble, lodge or reside within such building or part thereof, or if such building is used for any purpose mate - rially different from the purpose for which it was used at the time of the granting of the certificate, or if its interior ar - rangement is materially altered, or any egresses or means of escape from fire from such building are rendered unavail -

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

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