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  • “Many have asked me with anxious sollicitude,” he wrote, “if you did not mean to get into the Convention, conceiving it of indispensable necessity.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Many have asked me with anxious sollicitude,” he wrote, “if you did not mean to get into the Convention, conceiving it of indispensable necessity.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • “Many have asked me with anxious sollicitude,” he wrote, “if you did not mean to get into the Convention, conceiving it of indispensable necessity.”

    Ratification Pauline Maier 2010

  • For her maternal sollicitude, nothing is too small or to great a request.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Marguerite 2007

  • For her maternal sollicitude, nothing is too small or to great a request.

    Our Lady of Perpetual Help Marguerite 2007

  • I know this is just a phase that she is going through, where she is showing Mr Frog and I the same sollicitude and affection that she showers on her favourite dolly.

    malaise 2005

  • I know this is just a phase that she is going through, where she is showing Mr Frog and I the same sollicitude and affection that she showers on her favourite dolly.

    bisou 2005

  • But the most part of the sayd mines came to no proofe though they put fire in them, and many were met with countermines, and broken by our men by the good diligence and sollicitude of sir

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Il savait être aimable quand il le fallait, et voici son procédé pour se faire bien venir des personnes qu'il ne reconnaissait pas, mais qui le connaissaient, à en juger par leur manière de venir à lui: "Eh bien!" disait-il sur un ton d'affectueuse sollicitude, "et le vieil ennemi, que fait-il?"

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • Majésté Impériale, appréciant les sentimens de philantropie qui les out dictées, a daigné a cette occasion exprimer une fois de plus tout l'intérêt qu 'Elle porte à Ses sujets Israélites, dont le bien-être et l'avancement moral ne cesseront d'être l'objet de sa constante sollicitude.

    Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 Moses Montefiore 1834

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