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  • The talk from the rebels has meanwhile been disencouraging, scoffing at the news of the appointment of a new opposition party premier in Kinshasa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Yet he stipulated that his exit from public life should be made in company with the latest lady on whom he had bestowed his variable affections; and remembering this proviso, the Baroness, without exactly encouraging or disencouraging his scheme, was at least not prone to insist on coupling him with morality.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

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