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Nicolle claims Paris stole her fashion-related “patens” [sic] and “stiling” [sic] tips.
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Washington whom they avoided stiling Citizen, Tis said
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 February 1793 1793
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When I came to my lodgings, I found two notes: one from a person stiling himself a gentleman employed by the Earl; and another from
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777
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Fourth, King of Scotland, granted it to Thomas Boswell, a branch of an ancient family in the county of Fife, stiling him in the charter,
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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Popery in France by this expedition, the declaration published by the brother of the late King of France, stiling himself Louis XVIII, at the head of the emigrants in arms, exhibits the fact in the clearest point of view, while he plainly and unequivocally says, in that declaration, that their designs are the erection of the throne and altar, by which are meant the civil government and the Catholic religion, as they existed in France prior to the revolution.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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[5] by the by do not suspect me of stiling my lines there “A plaintive tale”.
Letter 267 1797
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"He certainly cannot be so base as to leave me," said she, "and in stiling himself my friend does he not promise to protect me.
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