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[ AMERICAN]
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| ... way of dealing with such cases. And in Canada, where they are finally settled, the unimaginative Dominion officials are driven to the verge of distraction concerning registration of deeds and the collection of taxes from men who do not claim acres in their own names, but in the name of ... |
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[ AMERICAN]
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| ... the collection of taxes from men who do not claim acres in their own names, but in the name of the village. The official distraction is reflected and intensified among the people themselves, to the point of driving them into the mediaeval "marching mania," in the hope of finding a ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... They have already begun their reign of terror in Richmond, by arresting many of the prominent citizens. Judge Crump is in a state of distraction about his poor little wandering exchequer, which seems to stand an even chance between the Scylla of our own hungry cavalry and the Charybdis of ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... the least discover That I am a virgin lover, By the challenge which I send; But for justice I contend. 'He has caused sad distraction, And I come for satisfaction, Which if he denies to give, One of us shall cease to live.Having thus her mind revealed, She her ... |
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[ SPANISH FICTION]
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| ... picaros find it without giving up anything. Philosophers abandoned their estates to contemplate natural and divine things, the movements of the heavens, with less distraction; picaros do it to sow all their wild oats. Philosophers threw their goods into the sea; picaros throw them in their stomachs. Philosophers despised those ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... her heart, burnt secretly Love the destroyer; and the hue of her soft cheeks went and came, now pale, now red, in her soul's distraction. (ll. 299-303) Now when the thralls had laid a banquet ready before them, and they had refreshed themselves with warm baths, gladly did they ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... time of her having left Longbourn, and of her stay in Derbyshire, so often, and in so hurried a way, as plainly spoke the distraction of his thoughts. At length, every idea seemed to fail him; and, after standing a few moments without saying a word, he suddenly recollected himself, ... |
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[ MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY, GERMANY & AUSTRIA]
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| ... persons, besides the king: neither are those counsels unprosperous; for, besides the secrecy, they commonly go on constantly, in one spirit of direction, without distraction. But then it must be a prudent king, such as is able to grind with a handmill; and those inward counsellors had need also be ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... in a grove! And what a husband we have!-the bravest fellow of the young garde, and a handsome one, who loves us to distraction! If I had known the advantages Montcornet has given you here I should have left my diatribing business and made myself a bailiff." "It is ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... your entrance into life you found an adorable woman, a perfect mistress, who thought of your future, made you a peer, loved you to distraction, only asked that you would be faithful to her, and you killed her! I know nothing more monstrous. Among all the passionate and unfortunate young ... |
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[ FRENCH FICTION]
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| ... thinking, justice had been deceived; if not, how could it have sentenced a man who had loved her for six months?--loved her to distraction in the hidden retreat to which he had taken her,--that he might, we may add, be at liberty to go his own way. Thus ... |
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