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He had the opportunity to be part of the team and work from within, but he's much more interested in calling attention to himself and opposing everything from outside, just like the rest of his GOP bore-thren.
Gregg defends GOP opposition, says Dems moving too far left 2010
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(In allusion to the well-known line of Euripides, Hippol.: e gloss omomoch e de thren anomotos.)
Theaetetus 2007
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"My bre -- thren!" responded he a second time; his teeth chattered louder; his cheeks became clammy and death-like.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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I hoped it would only affect the installation, so I finished the install, thren went to the forum.
phpBB.com 2009
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Malice incompatible righteous than Abel was shed by his bre - thren after the fliesh, they supphed an ad - ditional instance of their determination to do, what He, whom they of malice perse - cuted, had before accused them of doing,
Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ... 1813
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Take heed, my bre - thren, lest it be, because you will not rfr member them.
Sermons, for parochial and domestic use, designed to illustrate and enforce ... 1813
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His devotion was principally shewn in actually doing the will of his heavenly father; in freely and cheerfully doing it; in promoting by all means the best interests of mankind, his bre - thren, and in sacrificing all, his life itself, with - out reluctance, to the advancement of them.
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812
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Let each of us, my bre - thren, apply this remark to the subject in hand.
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ZINZEkbORF. 44t frofy orders in t7S4, at Tubingen, in the duchy of Wir - teitaberg; and in 1737, he received episcopal ordination, oh which occasion he received a letter of congratulation from Dr. Potter, archbishop of Canterbury, and from this time we always find him called the Ordinary of the bre - thren.
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Will he not be apt to separate himself from his humbler bre - thren, who perhaps far excell him in wisdom and virtue, and renounce all society with them, and be ashamed of any sort of familiarity with them? —
Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics Georg Joachim Zollikofer 1812
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