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Those who settled on the south side of Kentucky River acknowledged the validity of the Transylvania purchase; and Clark in his Memoir says: "the Proprietors at first took great pains to Ingratiate themselves in the fav'r of the people."
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920
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Ingratiate yourself in her eyes, and you've got, not only an asbestos mine, but a wife of such smartness and enterprise as rarely falls to the lot of a rising young man. '
What Necessity Knows Lily Dougall 1890
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Ingratiate yourself with the electors, and speak at the public-houses for both of us.
My Novel — Volume 12 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Ingratiate yourself with the electors, and speak at the public-houses for both of us.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Wills I suppose you will Endeavr. to make an Early ship next Year I shall be as well pleased to receive them by him as by any body he a very Carefull obligeing Person and takes abund = ance of Pains to Ingratiate himself into all our respects, I have sent for
Letter from Robert Carter to John Falconar, June 25, 1729 1729
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Selling Out Other Women to Ingratiate Herself With Misogynist Men.
Shakesville 2010
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Selling Out Other Women to Ingratiate Herself With Misogynist Men.
Shakesville 2010
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