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Told us ter be verv careful of drawin 'attention ter ourselves as we got nearer in case there was Death Eaters around.'
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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Here are the verv words of the Arab representative at the Conference of Versailles in 1919: We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy upon the Zionist Movement.
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We next attacked the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst in April, and this time we had to contend with a verv thick balloon barrage and a heavy ground smoke screen in addition to the anti-aircraft fire.
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He was backing out of the door with the same beckoning motion of his long damp hands, and they were in serious danger of being hypnotized out of the place by his verv gloom.
Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933
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He was backing out of the door with the same beckoning motion of his long damp hands, and they were in serious danger of being hypnotized out of the place by his verv gloom.
Sweet Danger Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1933
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MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, -- LET me say first that I, as a Dane, am verv thankful that your Club takes such an interest in our little country and its position; that right in the middle of your own much deeper trouble, you desire to be kept informed more fully than through the press reports about what we are doing, and have been doing, during these years of the World War.
Denmark and the War 1918
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We have about 250 Primary and Middle Schools altogether, and about 10,000 pupils attending those schools, but when you consider that there are eighty million people in the three provinces of Szechwan, Yunnan and Kweichow, of which eighty million at least ten million should be going to school, you can see that ten thousand is a verv small number and that we are still touching only the fringe of things.
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Mr. Enders verv conveniently forgot to bring my nuage.
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But it gives verv clearly St. Maximus's view that the smallest point of faith is to be held at the risk of one's life, and it demonstrates the ample admission made at Constantinople, before the struggles began, of the prerogatives of Rome.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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I consider the infliction, or retaliation, by driving off and appropriating a few horses, but a lenient punishment, which those persons at least should expect; and which, in fact, none but a verv honourable and hicrh-minded people could inflict, instead or a mnch severer one; which they could easily practice upon the few white men in their country, without rendering themselves amenable to any law.
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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