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  • Orientals, including those who tended the North American continent before the ravagement, rubbed noses, and thousands still do.

    Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

  • There's been one good thing about it only -- we've got order without cruelty, we've rebelled without ravagement; but we've missed the way, and we didn't deal with the

    No Defense, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • There's been one good thing about it only -- we've got order without cruelty, we've rebelled without ravagement; but we've missed the way, and we didn't deal with the Admiralty commissioners as we ought.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • There's been one good thing about it only -- we've got order without cruelty, we've rebelled without ravagement; but we've missed the way, and we didn't deal with the Admiralty commissioners as we ought.

    No Defense, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • The ravagement of his voice only heightens the poignancy.

    Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll 2008

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