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As Catholics around the country stand in bewilderment as to the significance of words such as "dew fall," "oblation" and "coutenance" to their personal spiritual growth and communal celebration of the Mass, Archbishop Dolan attacked what he described as "a drive to neuter religion."
Joseph Amodeo: Whose Religious Liberty Is It Anyway? A Question For America's Catholic Leaders Joseph Amodeo 2011
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His skin is tanned by the sun, his coutenance open and cheerful.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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His skin is tanned by the sun, his coutenance open and cheerful.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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But few would coutenance such a radical deregulatory model.
Why Health Care Reform is Hard, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I was thinking about all the scholars and people who refuse to even coutenance the idea that Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings had a relationship.
Archive 2007-09-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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From its coutenance gleamed a barbarous smile, ten times more terrific than the frown of any other being.
Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796
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And he doth not fo chere them with y brightnes of his coutenance, that they cnioy long cotinuing gladnes.
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Ganymedes, one of which sat in the coutenance of Arcite, could never have been intended; -- another, something, if not Ganymede, was wanted, and he, therefore, has this note: -- "The construction and meaning are,
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