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Yearned to watch his ill-clad, crumpled body fly across the room.
candy bars, selling cars and satan MaryAnne Kolton 2011
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The trio were ordinary-looking creatures, ill-clad and even ragged.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Exact contents of the tome, "Parallel Lives," are under tight wraps, but Mr. Martins, a co-author, says it will dispel what he describes as misconceptions oft-cited as motives, such as one that paints Lizzie's father, Andrew Borden, as a miser who shunned an indoor toilet and forced his ill-clad daughters to eat rotten mutton soup.
Some in Lizzie Borden's Hometown Think Her Legend Is Out of Whack Jennifer Levitz 2011
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The Rangers were just a dirty, ill-clad, underfed squad of irregulars anyway.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Roosevelt later saw poverty's spreading scourge, "millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster (hung) over them day by day .... one-third of the nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."
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He is poor and ill-clad and borrowed 400,000 sesterces to dower his daughter, while Pudentilla, a woman of fortune, was content with
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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But he had by a most ingenious fraud transferred the greater part of his property to his wife, and so, although he himself was needy, ill-clad and protected by the very depth of his fall, managed to leave this same Rufinus — I am telling you the truth and nothing but the truth — no less than 3,000,000 sesterces to be squandered on riotous living.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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As Roosevelt said, "I see one third of a nation, ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished."
The '30S 2008
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He is poor and ill-clad and borrowed 400,000 sesterces to dower his daughter, while Pudentilla, a woman of fortune, was content with
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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But he had by a most ingenious fraud transferred the greater part of his property to his wife, and so, although he himself was needy, ill-clad and protected by the very depth of his fall, managed to leave this same Rufinus — I am telling you the truth and nothing but the truth — no less than 3,000,000 sesterces to be squandered on riotous living.
The Defense Apuleius 2008
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