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'Entail'd by their customs,' said she, 'is the shame;
Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes Jean de La Fontaine 1658
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Married, straight judges, for example, would "very likely" find that in the apocalypse sure to follow the loss of Prop 8 "same-sex marriage would or could": "Entail the further, and in some respects full, deinstitutionalization of marriage"
William K. Black: Lawyers Defending Prop 8's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Continue to Self-Destruct William K. Black 2011
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Married, straight judges, for example, would "very likely" find that in the apocalypse sure to follow the loss of Prop 8 "same-sex marriage would or could": "Entail the further, and in some respects full, deinstitutionalization of marriage"
William K. Black: Lawyers Defending Prop 8's Ban on Same-Sex Marriage Continue to Self-Destruct William K. Black 2011
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"Edward III's Entail and the Succession to the Crown, 1376 – 1471," English Historical Review, 113 (1998): 580 – 609
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I still hope to do a big read (Ringan Gilhaizie) and re-read (The Entail, The Provost) of Galt this year, a two week Wuthering Expectations John Galt Special Edition.
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Entail working with someone to recognize and understand our problems and their causes.
Avoiding Confusion in the Spiritual Student-Teacher Relationship 2002
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In Sir Walters own day and generation he had one considerable imitator in Galt, whose 'Andrew Wylie of that Ilk' and 'The Entail' can still afford pleasure to the reader.
My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray
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But on further inquiry it was found that his title to the estate ceased with the abolition of the entail under the Entail Amendment Act of 1848.
Australian Writers Desmond Byrne
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And if this Affects you not, remember your own Reputation in the World: You have lived in Credit and Repute among your Neighbours: and will you Sacrifice that, and Entail Shame and Dishonour upon your Self and Family, for gratifying the Lusts of a filthy and Lascivious Strumpet?
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Considering this subject of the Law of Entail one step further, we find that Hallam, the present Lord Tennyson, is a Peer of the Realm simply because his father was a great poet, and honors were given him on that account by the Queen.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916
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