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  • Sacrifice, without joy, becomes an iou, due and payable, in one form or another.

    Sacrifice vs. Joy ** Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007

  • Sacrifice, without joy, becomes an iou, due and payable, in one form or another.

    Archive 2007-09-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2007

  • Secretary Powell is in the region, as iou are aware, and will be talking with Pakistani leaders about some of these issues.

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2004 2004

  • And from hence, they say, it comes that at this day, in the feast of Oschophoria, the herald is not crowned, but his staff, and all who are present at the libation cry out eleleu iou iou, the first of which confused sounds is commonly used by men in haste, or at a triumph, the other is proper to people in consternation or disorder of mind.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • He said quietly, 'Please allow me to do this for iou.'

    The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

  • He said quietly, 'Please allow me to do this for iou.'

    The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000

  • The oldest name was doubtless _Marghas-iou_, meaning "the markets" in an early form of Cornish; and in a later form of Cornish we have _Marasion_, which meant the same thing.

    The Cornwall Coast

  • Perlin notes a pleasant custom at table: during the feast you hear more than a hundred times, "Drink iou" (he loves to air his English), that is to say, "Je m'en vois boyre a toy."

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • Perlin notes a pleasant custom at table: during the feast you hear more than a hundred times, "Drink iou" (he loves to air his English), that is to say, "Je m'en vois boyre a toy."

    For Whom Shakespeare Wrote Charles Dudley Warner 1864

  • And then, says the artless Frenchman, still improving on his English, you should respond thus: "Bigod, sol drink iou agoud oin."

    Complete Essays Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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