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  • And perhaps he confirmed himself with the reflection that even if people believed his tale (so long after date and so unvouched), so far as family annals were concerned, the remedy would be as bad as the disease.

    Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

  • She had seen clearly his interest in the stranger, unintroduced and unvouched for, taken in by kind people in an emergency, and though showing unquestionable marks of breeding, none the less a stranger.

    Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular 1912

  • Lyme, Mr. Keightley surmises, very plausibly, that his unvouched data must have been derived, directly or indirectly, from the Rhodes family.

    Fielding Austin Dobson 1880

  • One day, Jeff, looking over some old accounts of his wife's, found an unreceipted, unvouched for expenditure of twenty thousand dollars.

    Jeff Briggs's Love Story Bret Harte 1869

  • And perhaps he confirmed himself with the reflection that even if people believed his tale (so long after date and so unvouched), so far as family annals were concerned, the remedy would be as bad as the disease.

    Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

  • D. which can be got immediately the persons being in the neighborhood. he thinks there will be scarcely a dollar unvouched.

    Letters to and from Jefferson, 1821-1822 1822

  • The Oireachtas Commission have come up with a proposal that I should combine all expenses into one monthly block grant to deputies which would be unvouched; it would simply be based on the distance the deputy has to travel from the seat of our parliament in Dublin.

    Irish Blogs The Story 2010

  • I'm not prepared to sign-off on a system that simply provides for an unvouched block grant based on distance from the capital.

    Irish Blogs The Story 2010

  • At present there's an unvouched telephone allowance, I see no reason why that would not be vouched.

    Irish Blogs The Story 2010

  • This applies to the Public Representation Allowance where a member claims above the unvouched limits.

    Irish Blogs Irish Election 2010

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