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  • Thumbnail for Thou shalt not covet
    passion for riches and power. "You shan't covet" means that we should banish our desires for whatever doesn't belong to us. Never having enough money is...
    32 KB (4,634 words) - 15:58, 21 June 2024
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    simplicity is gained, To bow and to bend we shan’t be ashamed, To turn, turn will be our delight, Till by turning, turning we come 'round right. Several...
    17 KB (2,022 words) - 03:25, 17 May 2024
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    spread beyond drama and fiction to personal letters, journalism, and descriptive texts. An't, ben't, can't, don't, han't, shan't and won't were well established...
    96 KB (10,623 words) - 12:05, 26 April 2024
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    said, I shan't be going to see it. My book is a comic book. Not a movie, not a novel. A comic book. It's been made in a certain way, and designed to be read...
    28 KB (1,978 words) - 20:19, 8 July 2024
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    Rivers of Blood speech (category History of immigration to the United Kingdom)
    married now, with family. I shan't be satisfied till I have seen them all settled overseas." The man finished by saying to Powell: "In this country in...
    51 KB (6,740 words) - 23:51, 6 June 2024
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    done that yesterday ("It would have been expedient, or expected of me, to do that yesterday"). The negative inflections are shan't and shouldn't. Negating...
    82 KB (9,946 words) - 14:17, 30 June 2024
  • beginning to think of what we owe the other fellow, not just what we're compelled to give him. The time's coming, Watson, when we shan't be able to fill our...
    8 KB (1,004 words) - 02:57, 26 May 2024
  • and /ʃæl/ when stressed. Shan't is pronounced /ʃɑːnt/ in England, New Zealand, South Africa etc.; in North America (if used) it is pronounced /ʃænt/, and...
    34 KB (4,567 words) - 20:47, 29 June 2024
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    declined to participate. Simper stated, "Yes, it is a little strange that I am [the] only one from Marks I, II and III being left out, but I shan't lose any...
    12 KB (1,072 words) - 22:41, 11 May 2024
  • social reform is utopian ("We shan't live to see the real advance"), she has worked it out in quite some detail: "[...] How can we wonder that only one person...
    8 KB (1,043 words) - 08:01, 28 December 2023
  • Importing circles' quotients are, we see, Unwieldy long series of cockle burs Put all together, get no clarity; Mnemonics shan't describeth so reformed Creating...
    38 KB (3,150 words) - 12:04, 27 June 2024
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    forms can/can't/cannot and could/couldn't, may and might/mightn't, shall/shan't and should/shouldn't, will/won't and would/wouldn't, as well as must/musn't...
    37 KB (5,114 words) - 08:29, 8 July 2024
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    Stanley Baldwin (category Articles to be expanded from March 2022)
    claimed Baldwin said to him: "If we do have a war, Winston must be Prime Minister. If he is in [the Cabinet] now we shan't be able to engage in that war...
    101 KB (12,297 words) - 11:30, 27 June 2024
  • anthem of Sylt. The lyrics were written by C. P. Christiansen (1855–1922). It is sung annually at the Biikebrennen. Leew Eilun Feer *Wilts, Ommo (2001)...
    4 KB (93 words) - 22:53, 29 March 2020
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    terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given...
    153 KB (16,271 words) - 13:05, 11 July 2024
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    artistic merits in it". He also warned conductor Eduard Nápravník that "I shan't be at all surprised and offended if you find that it is in a style unsuitable...
    93 KB (11,115 words) - 17:03, 16 June 2024
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    Moore as the surviving members. In tribute, Banner said: "We can't believe we shan't ever see you behind those drums again." Denotes UK Chart Positions...
    32 KB (2,936 words) - 13:01, 9 July 2024
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    away: It shan't! that Walloon twaddle will have its way: It shan't! This we hope, for this we hanker: this we say and this we vow: as long as we fight...
    93 KB (10,119 words) - 12:31, 9 July 2024
  • vividly," recalled Robert Hardy. "It was a ghastly shock, and one thought, 'Well, that's the end of that. We shan't be going on.'" Timothy remembers:...
    71 KB (9,802 words) - 00:21, 20 June 2024
  • 1918: "I suppose if you're ill I shan't get more gossip yet, though Duncan and I laughed over the last batch until we nearly cried. Have you seen Saxon...
    6 KB (837 words) - 14:39, 13 December 2022
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