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  • I have had more money from Berlin than would bribe the viceroy's council, and I have not once been in the dark about Germany's plans -- although they have always thought I am in the dark.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Once in a hundred years or so a viceroy's cup, or a Derby is won by an animal that can stand and look and move as that mare did.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • "My cook was a viceroy's," she said, beginning to eat.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • And of course, as any Magu resident will tell you, the viceroy's age-old decree makes the whole debate irrelevant anyway.

    Mexico's War Over Taxes 2007

  • Antonio's wife, and Ricote in the viceroy's house.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • The general yielded to the viceroy's request, for revenge is not easily taken in cold blood.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • The British government announced a reorganization of the government, giving the Indians a large majority on the viceroy's council.

    1940, Aug. 8 2001

  • He did not feel the stone that killed him, nor see the dawn that spilled from the eastern sky of Haldane a handful of minutes after his body had slumped into an untidy heap on the viceroy's private riding trail.

    The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987

  • Thus while one asserted that the Irish speaker had misunderstood the viceroy's message, which only meant that his majesty would pay the 4000 foreigners, another contended that when the Irish establishment was increased, the king had engaged to pay 12,000 troops in that country, except in case of invasion or rebellion in England, and that the present demand not being within these exceptions, his majesty should, therefore, be absolved from his promise.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • Accordingly, with the viceroy's permission, he organized his forces, and in 1540 set out on his memorable march in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola.

    The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races Emory Adams Allen

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