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Examples
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He must have sounded tentative because Drest continued.
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"I have a proposition for you, Guido," Drest said.
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"Your mother loved your father a great deal," Drest was saying.
Friday Flash: An Offer You Can't Refuse marisabirns.com 2010
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"Your mother loved your father a great deal," Drest was saying.
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"I have a proposition for you, Guido," Drest said.
Friday Flash: An Offer You Can't Refuse marisabirns.com 2010
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He must have sounded tentative because Drest continued.
Friday Flash: An Offer You Can't Refuse marisabirns.com 2010
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Drest like the wife of a peasant, the people had not the smallest suspicion who I was, nor, that every word of the ‘round unvarnished tale’ which they told, was a thousand daggers to my soul.
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Drest in her religious habit in memory of her vows broken to heaven, furnished with the dagger which had drank the blood of her Paramour, and holding the Lamp which had guided her flying steps, every night did She stand before the Bed of Otto.
The Monk 2004
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As Shakespeare put it: . . . man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / . . .
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981
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As Shakespeare put it: “… man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, /… Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep.”
How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job Dale Carnegie 1970
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