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I agree that this lothsome chicanery of an attempt at ending this war, by the do nothing Dems, will not get enough votes-even from the Dems themselves - but it's message of more taxation will not resonate well with a hynotized electorate who sees any form of taxation as counter-productive to growth.
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I agree that this lothsome chicanery of an attempt at ending this war, by the do nothing Dems, will not get enough votes-even from the Dems themselves - but it's message of more taxation will not resonate well with a hynotized electorate who sees any form of taxation as counter-productive to growth.
Approps Chair Obey Says He'll Block Funding For War Without Withdrawal Date 2009
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It appeareth to me, that thou art verie desirous to come downe hither on the ground; the best counsell that I can give thee, is to leape downe headlong, that by breaking thy necke (if thy fortune be so faire) thy life and lothsome qualities ending together, I may sit and smile at thy deserved destruction.
The Decameron 2004
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Wallowbirds, that is to say, lothsome or fulsome birdes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The lothsome view of the shore, and irksome noyse of the yce was such, as that it bred strange conceites among vs, so that we supposed the place to be wast and voyd of any sensible or vegitable creatures, whereupon I called the same
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The lothsome view of the shore, and irksome noyse of the yce was such, as that it bred strange conceites among vs, so that we supposed the place to be wast and voyd of any sensible or vegitable creatures, whereupon I called the same
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Also thesame Demosthenes, seyng the people careles, sloth - full, and lothsome to heare the Oratours, and all for the flo - rishing state of the kingdome: he ascended to the place or pul - pet, where the Oracions were made, and began with this fa -
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Aboute this tyme the Councells at Westminster lost a principle supporter, by the death of John Pimm, who dyed with greate torment and agony, of a disease unusuall, and therfore the more spoken of, morbus pediculosus, which rendred him an objecte very lothsome, to those who had bene most delighted with him.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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Or as I haue seene in diuers places where many make themselues hart whole, when in deede they are full sicke, bearing it stoutly out to the hazard of their health, rather then they would be suspected of any lothsome infirmity, which might inhibit them from the Princes presence, or entertainment of the ladies.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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The "lothsome spottes" here intended are the 13th and 14th articles of
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