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  • I well know they cannot legally do but I am almost come to the humour, of resting tamely under it and waiting till I can be reimburst from the

    Letter from Robert Carter to Alderman [Micajah] Perry, May 12, 1732 1732

  • _Ireland_ were sunk in the Ocean, so that the People were all saved and brought into the Lowlands of _Great Britain_; nay, though they were to be reimburst the Value of their Estates by the Body of the People, yet both the Sovereign and the Subjects in general would be enriched by the very Loss.

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695

  • She can do what she wants with those republicans tax money, but what about the democrates who had no say so. they should be reimburst.

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  • Yes, Sarah Palin should reimburst the state of Alaska for the travel of her children.

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  • I must again return you thanks for your former kindness, and hope my kinsman Read, to whom I gaue full orders, has reimburst you, tho it has bin worth noth - ing to me hitherto, neither do I see any grate prospect, yet it has bin a kindness to the people not to be harrassed beyound reason, as they might haue bin and would, if it had remained where it was.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • "Ah! sir," cried the young schoolmaster, beaming gratitude from his whole surface, "I-- I" -- he smote his breast, -- "I would reimburst her in good citizen 'and mother' of good citizen '!

    Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana George Washington Cable 1884

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