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  • I love Tina Fey and Alex and would be greateful to win this prize.

    “30 Rock” Season Two DVD Giveaway » Scene-Stealers 2008

  • I am just so proud of us all for being part of this really amazing project, and so greateful to Kristen and Julie and Sandra for dreaming it up nad making it happen.

    Archive 2006-12-01 kittenpie 2006

  • I am just so proud of us all for being part of this really amazing project, and so greateful to Kristen and Julie and Sandra for dreaming it up nad making it happen.

    Stop the Glamour! Updated with Her Bad Auction News! kittenpie 2006

  • Rubay`i brought `Allawi into government, and for that `Allawi is grateful or greateful, as Ahmad Fatfat spells it.

    Tuesday, May 01, 2007 As'ad 2007

  • Bolivar, in a letter dated February 8, 1816, generously credited Pétion with being “the author” of Venezuelan liberty, and his greateful countrymen later erected a monument to Pétion in their capital.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Bolivar, in a letter dated February 8, 1816, generously credited Pétion with being “the author” of Venezuelan liberty, and his greateful countrymen later erected a monument to Pétion in their capital.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • Bolivar, in a letter dated February 8, 1816, generously credited Pétion with being “the author” of Venezuelan liberty, and his greateful countrymen later erected a monument to Pétion in their capital.

    World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947

  • I may be hit by a multitude of different type weapons and some very small weapons hitting in a vital spot would bring down this big powerful aircraft, and in my case I was hit by a large weapn that most certainly would knock down my aircraft and the fire was so intense in the cockpit that I was greateful to get out of that airplane.

    Pilots in Pajamas - Part 6 1967

  • 'I told you in my letter that I deeply felt and admired your sympathy with that poor lad, whom you released at the risk of involving yourself in trouble and difficulty; but I can never tell you how greateful he and

    Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

  • I am sometimes pleased with myself in my greateful sensations; but I believe, on the whole, I have very little merit in it, as my gratitude is not a virtue, the consequence of reflection; but sheerly the instinctive emotion of my heart, too inattentive to allow worldly maxims and views to settle into selfish habits.

    The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777

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