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  • and married a corrupt lieutenant; however, Walsh still clings to the vain hope that his ex-wife will reunite with him. Later, Mardukas learns that the...
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    and spent most of his reign fleeing from one province to another in the vain hope of raising an army. Yazdegerd met his end at the hands of a miller near...
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    this chapter into the following sections: Jeremiah 37:1–10 = Zedekiah's Vain Hope Jeremiah 37:11–21 = Jeremiah Imprisoned Now King Zedekiah the son of Josiah...
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  • observed, "The reader may well begin riffling the pages of the book in the vain hope that there will be a few complimentary Prozac capsules tucked inside for...
    7 KB (675 words) - 19:52, 30 May 2024
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    to help the President escape the Washington heat and humidity, in the vain hope that the fresh air and quiet might aid his recovery. Garfield was propped...
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  • conventionally, but the Japanese people will stubbornly fight to the last in the vain hope for a victory. The only way to make Japan reconsider is to make the inevitable...
    10 KB (1,092 words) - 01:08, 4 June 2024
  • tried to do against him. Her interest in the nephew derives from the vain hope of learning the uncle's secret (of which Kirby has no idea). Kirby's luck...
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    Anacortes was established with a name and a post office in 1879 in the vain hope that it would be selected as the western terminus of the transcontinental...
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  • very popular among the proles, who buy tickets and hope to win the big prizes—a completely vain hope as the big prizes are in fact not awarded at all,...
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    needs money, takes his temple-trained elephant to do this job, in the vain hope that wild elephants will not come in. But wild elephants start attacking...
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  • Heaven. Benzinger Brothers. Hunolt, Franz (1897). "Sermon 11: On The Vain Hope Of A Deathbed Repentance" . Sermons on the four last things: Death, Judgment...
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  • temples for people who died in accidents, called Yin miao, hoping that after these people died in vain, they would be provided with jisi and not disturb the...
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  • should, raising vain hopes that she'll be able to work it into something pulpier and more defined. Despite the eventual disappointment, I hope she sticks with...
    15 KB (1,394 words) - 15:59, 28 May 2024
  • friends outside, waving their white, engraved invitations aloft in the vain hope of entering." Sterling Houston and Lary Neal wrote A'Lelia, a musical...
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    into Heaven. After getting over the River of Death on the ferry boat of Vain Hope without overcoming the hazards of wading across it, Ignorance appears...
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    the "Dear Boss" letter and the postcard on 3 October, in the ultimately vain hope that a member of the public would recognise the handwriting. Charles Warren...
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    Reginald "near a seductive dish of marrons glacés" at a garden-party in the vain hope that these delicacies will distract him from wreaking social havoc. In...
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    Up in the Millions, Many Houses were Blown Up with Giant Powder in the Vain Hope of Staying the Flames", San Francisco Call, vol. 72, no. 6, p. 2, June...
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  • Mary who had been in the care of a doctor investigating the illness in vain hope of finding a cure. As Abe cleans wounds caused by her restraining shackles...
    14 KB (1,449 words) - 07:51, 3 March 2024
  • necrophilia. Finally, Bundy confesses to several unsolved murders in the vain hope that Keppel will delay his execution. Meanwhile, Keppel and Reichert question...
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