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Well, it could take up to three weeks to redrain New Orleans, but the mayor wants some residents back even sooner.
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Only six months to go before we redrain the swamp, as House Leader Nancy Pelosi so eloquently told us in 2006.
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Only six months to go before we redrain the swamp, as House Leader Nancy Pelosi so eloquently told us in 2006.
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Thefe obfervations remove entirely the obje&ion to the happinefs of virtue, takea from its requiring labour and circumfpec - tion, and obliging us to redrain our paflions, and to pradife felf-denial.
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In thefe circumrtances, it was not apparently her intereft to redrain her people from gomg to thole regions in which their atftivity fo powerfully contributed towards the nggrandizement of the court.
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You can banilh from thence fcurrllity and prophanenefs, and redrain die licentious in iolence of poets and their actors in all things that fhock the public quiet, or the reputation of pri - vate pcrfons, under die notion of humour - But I mean not the authority which is annexed to your office:
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Whether next fun his being (hall redrain To cndlefs nothing, happinefs, or pain.
Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry: Selected for the Improvement of ... 1791
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