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  • With a little luck, and much shrewd manipulation of op - portune circumstances, sagacious AAnn nobles and their skillful xenologists felt it might even be possible to bring both transient allies into open conflict with one another.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

  • Originally a Monk of Bangor, i the County of Down, he pafTed into Britain,. whertum humanum genus ortu utitur pari, de fimili vita fine cadit aequali. ferentibus vitam mors incerta fubripit: nnes fuperbos vagos • moeror mortis corripit. lod pro Chrifto largiri nolunt, omnes avari portune omittunt:, poft fe coUigunt ♦ ali. rvum ipfi viventes Deo dare vix audent:

    Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ... 1789

  • Succeflb, and Experiments in the Courfe of our lives: all which (it is manifeft) are not in our own power, but proceeds from the Temper of our Pa - _ rents, the Diet, Climate, and Cuftoms of our Country, with 'diwerfity of Occurrents and Coojuo&ures of the Times, - which are produced with op -' 'portune.

    Religio Laici: Written in a Letter to John Dryden, Esq 1683

  • now, why did the enquirer go after mallory ( even filing something in court if i remeber right) and not portune - you're right - because he is black - a powerful , black , democrat on city council ( which has no legal backbone to fight them)

    Portune Hosting Secret Meeting On Jail Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • the only meetings portune is mandated to "open" to the public are board of county commission meetings in which two or more of the commissioners are personally present.

    County Infighting Over Jail And Secret Meeting Nathaniel Livingston 2006

  • "With a little luck, and much shrewd manipulation of op - portune circumstances, sagacious AAnn nobles and their skillful xenologists felt it might even be possible to bring both transient allies into open conflict with one another.

    Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

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