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  • Pressuring a partner to give up a dearly-loved pet can also result in irreparable damage to a relationship.

    Dr. Karen Becker: Would You Choose Your Pet Over Your Partner? Dr. Karen Becker 2011

  • Pressuring a partner to give up a dearly-loved pet can also result in irreparable damage to a relationship.

    Dr. Karen Becker: Would You Choose Your Pet Over Your Partner? Dr. Karen Becker 2011

  • Pressuring a partner to give up a dearly-loved pet can also result in irreparable damage to a relationship.

    Dr. Karen Becker: Would You Choose Your Pet Over Your Partner? Dr. Karen Becker 2011

  • Moreover Aetolian Leda sent from Sparta strong Polydeuces and Castor, skilled to guide swift-footed steeds; these her dearly-loved sons she bare at one birth in the house of Tyndareus; nor did she forbid their departure; for she had thoughts worthy of the bride of Zeus.

    The Argonautica 2008

  • Any one of us who lost our most dearly-loved person in life, all for the sake of lies and more lies and endless war, may have a darned hard time being so logical and acting as morally as we would under any other circumstances.

    Explosion On Times Square 2008

  • As for the other writer, whose departure many friends, some few most dearly-loved relatives, and multitudes of admiring readers deplore, our republic has already decreed his statue, and he must have known that he had earned this posthumous honor.

    Roundabout Papers 2006

  • Then she sent for her chariot of green rushes, ornamented with May dewdrops, which she particularly valued and always collected with great care; and ordered her six short-tailed moles to carry them all back to the well-known pastures, which they did in a remarkably short time; and Sylvain and Jocosa were overjoyed to see their dearly-loved home once more after all their toilful wanderings.

    The Green Fairy Book 2003

  • 'I'd have dearly-loved to slit his treacherous throat.'

    Winter Warriors Gemmell, David 1997

  • With loving greetings and prayers for the success of my dearly-loved sister, Miss A. A.exander.

    Japan Will Turn Ablaze! 1960

  • The belief that as a judgment on her these dearly-loved ones were not to be among the saved had been growing; it was to be Ishmael whom the Lord demanded of her; it was by the tail of his little tunic that she, clinging, should also be swept into the region of the secure.

    Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse

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