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  • Although this success may entail great suffering on herself, she prefers it to the nonfulfilment of what she knows our Lord most certainly foretold.

    The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

  • The remaining suits were mostly for claims for wages or payments due or for nonfulfilment of contracts.

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • In more modern language every measure is called a sanction which is intended to further the observation of the law by subjects, whether the reward to whomsoever fulfills it, or the penalty or chastisement inflicted or at least threatened for nonfulfilment, whether it relates to presciptive laws which require something to be done, or to prohibitive laws which require that something be omitted.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • As a pretext for the war he took the treaties of succession of his forefathers with the rulers of several of the smaller Silesian duchies, made in 1537, for the nonfulfilment of which Austria seemingly was alone to blame.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • To have taken means simply to take; the implication of nonfulfilment that justified the perfects above is here needless, being already given in I should have liked; and the doubled have is ugly in sound.

    Perfect Infinitive. 1908

  • There remained one great longing to the Princess, the nonfulfilment of which was as a void in her soul.

    The Loves of Great Composers Kobbe, Gustav 1905

  • There remained one great longing to the Princess, the nonfulfilment of which was as a void in her soul.

    The Loves of Great Composers Gustav Kobb�� 1887

  • And amidst all the ruin of hope, it was perhaps the nonfulfilment of that ambition which most made her heart bleed.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • And amidst all the ruin of hope, it was perhaps the nonfulfilment of that ambition which most made her heart bleed.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • And amidst all the ruin of hope, it was perhaps the nonfulfilment of that ambition which most made her heart bleed.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5 ��mile Zola 1871

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