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  • I think the only thing that has saved my family during these economic times is my husband and I long ago vow'd never to own a credit card.

    Broken Government: Middle class fed up? 2010

  • If you have vow'd yourself to Boccus, reply'd the Stranger, then here perform your Obligation; for behold it is

    Exilius 2008

  • A thousand Things I resolv'd, and with the next Gust of Thought dissolv'd 'em all; a thousand Things I vow'd, and with the next Breath renounc'd 'em all; Thought supplanting Thought, 'till my Understanding was grown barren, and incapable of any rational

    Exilius 2008

  • I had not yet pass'd the Dog − days of Bosvil's hot Pursuits; but at his Return he treated me in another Manner than ever: If before he admir'd, honour'd, or esteem'd me, he now doted, ador'd, and dy'd for me; vow'd a thousand

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • Importunities and Menaces, and at last grew angry to that Degree, that he vow'd I should never see the Sun more, 'till I made my Will comply with his, in marrying Valerius; treating me with much Rigour, or rather Tyranny, still believing, I suppose, that I must have some secret

    Exilius 2008

  • I had not yet pass'd the Dog − days of Bosvil's hot Pursuits; but at his Return he treated me in another Manner than ever: If before he admir'd, honour'd, or esteem'd me, he now doted, ador'd, and dy'd for me; vow'd a thousand

    The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia 2008

  • The good Priest answer'd her very respectfully, that He being an Italian Priest was vow'd to a single Life.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Fidelius was deaf to these my Perswasions, and vow'd he would never leave me, whatever he suffer'd with me; and that he should deem himself happier in those Woods to enjoy my Presence, than in a Palace without me; to which Resolution he was ty'd by Inclination as well as

    Exilius 2008

  • The good Priest answer'd her very respectfully, that He being an Italian Priest was vow'd to a single Life.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • I perceive, Sir, reply'd the Princess, you are one whose hard Fortune it is to be in the Number of my Lovers: Alas! the World knows I am vow'd to the

    Exilius 2008

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