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    potently believed." In addition, he "took pleasure in reading old Mather's direful tales till dusk after school. Moreover, no supernatural story or superstition...
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    involving suffering or fire, although it nevertheless describes it as a "direful condition". The souls of the righteous dead are in light and rest, with...
    113 KB (13,244 words) - 21:28, 8 May 2024
  • far did he go in his presumption, that when a soothsayer once reported direful inwards [sic] without a heart, he said: "They will be more favourable when...
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  • in the United States. In these, he argued there could be a way out of direful wars among the imperialist powers, a solution now named ultra-imperialism...
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    country are indebted for many mitigations of the suffering caused by the direful passions of war." Geary County, Kansas, was renamed in honor of John W...
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    [T]he pope's legates, in A.D. 1054, deposited on the altar of St. Sophia a direful anathema... and from this thunderbolt we may date the consummation of the...
    38 KB (4,509 words) - 22:38, 28 March 2024
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    far did he go in his presumption, that when a soothsayer once reported direful inwards [sic] without a heart, he said: "They will be more favorable when...
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  • maternal aunt, i.e., the sister of his father, Srikanth. In the past, the direful Lokeswara Rao turns Srikanth into a dissident, whom Parvati reforms, and...
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  • 1688–1744, poet 1715 London, Bernard Lintot Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! Tickell, Thomas 1685–1740...
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  • is shewn from many high authorities, the trivial causes, cruel nature, direful effects and anti-Christian spirit and practice of war (1808). According...
    10 KB (1,189 words) - 06:00, 28 December 2023
  • was written about the first match: "The Freshmen's wrath, to Sophs the direful spring / Of shins unnumbered bruised, great goddess sing!") In 1860, both...
    158 KB (17,319 words) - 23:45, 4 March 2024
  • Norman Hunter Kenneth Williams 23-Oct-80 2611 Count Bakwerdz on the Carpet: Direful Dragonry Norman Hunter Kenneth Williams 24-Oct-80 2612 The Good Little...
    339 KB (138 words) - 21:03, 15 April 2024
  • Nineveh, to Nineb's surprise and beguilement, where he ultimately faces a direful dilemma over the two. In the meantime, Nineb experiences familial problems...
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  • hills south-westward, where, during the night, we saw their camp fires, a direful moaning chant arose. It was wafted on the hot morning air across the valley...
    11 KB (1,760 words) - 02:14, 13 September 2023
  • The film begins with frightful ruffian Kattula Kondaiah, employed by two direful MLA Madhava Rao and his brother-in-law Prasad Rao, who conspires with one...
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    deals thine ire, to seely souls who overlove thy claim! What deaths, what direful risks, what agonies wherewith thou guerd'onest them, thy fitting prize...
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    earthquake played a part in the greater good somewhere else. Yet in this direful chaos you'd compose A general bliss from individuals' woes? Oh worthless...
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    quantity barely sufficient to sustain life. To which were added all the direful apprehensions of still more protracted suffering, from the want of a pilot...
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  • pursued by partisans, did not sleep well. And the payback for this was direful: Hundreds of poor people, shot, maimed, with stars carved on their chests...
    22 KB (3,083 words) - 21:36, 12 May 2024
  • Ireland because he was neglected in love, publishing Cynthia, containing direful sonnets, madrigalls and passionate intercourses, describing his repudiate...
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