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As to dress code violations: your attitude demonstrates that you are the type who would have been violating the dressa code and just generally making an ass out of yourself.
Amanda Marcotte, into the vortex. Ann Althouse 2007
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Deux ans après cette découverte, comme il alloit à Michillimackinack, il entra le 18me de May, 1675, dans la rivière dont il s'agit; il dressa son autel sur le terrein bas, qu'on lassia à droite en y entrant, et il y dit la messe.
The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836
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Uniqlo dressa dress like this one from French Connection just needs some statement earrings, strappy sandals and a tan to channel Studio 54 style at any do.
Sky Showbiz - Latest 2010
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Ses négociations et son voyage lui parurent mériter d'être transmis à la postérité, et il dressa des mémoires qu'en mourant il laissa entre les mains d'Hayton son neveu, seigneur de Courchi.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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I’ma I’ma put ya nuts on on on a dressa, just ya nuts.
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Dun leev glahses uf wahta on da dressa oar iz getz nok’d awn da floar – ovtan awl ova mai skool reparts.
oh hai… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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-- il se dressa en pied, as Amyot would have said; he seemed to grow taller; he raised his withered hands and wrung them despairingly and wildly.
The Collection of Antiquities Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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-- il se dressa en pied, as Amyot would have said; he seemed to grow taller; he raised his withered hands and wrung them despairingly and wildly.
The Jealousies of a Country Town Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Ses n間ociations et son voyage lui parurent m閞iter d’阾re transmis � la post閞it�, et il dressa des m閙oires qu’en mourant il laissa entre les mains d’Hayton son neveu, seigneur de Courchi.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"Tenez, Dame Leonarde, voici un jeune garçon," &c. Again, "On dressa dans le salon une grande table, et l'on me renvoya dans la cuisine, où la _Dame_ Leonarde m'instruisit de ce que j'avais a faire ....
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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