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  • I'll miss my dear brother.

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  • And that wouldn't bother dear old Arthur?

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  • Dear God, I hope not!

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  • All of my dear little friends came to see me.

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  • I'm fine, dear, really.

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  • They are dear, kind people....

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  • Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

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  • Dear friend, I can do nothing.

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  • Teacher sends her kind remembrances, and I send you with my picture my dear love.

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  • In the diary that she kept at the Wright-Humason School in New York she wrote on October 18, 1894, "I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life--to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly."

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  • But you know, my dear boy, it's a pity you got excited!

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  • I was sure dear Brenda would be far more candid with the instrument pressed to her throat.

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  • Only the two of us, dear Joshua and I, know our secret and so will it remain.

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  • The lesson you have learned to-day is never to pay too dear for a whistle.

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  • Then I shall see you, and dear Mr. Bell, and Elsie and Daisy again!

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  • Just before the Perkins Institution closed for the summer, it was arranged that my teacher and I should spend our vacation at Brewster, on Cape Cod, with our dear friend, Mrs. Hopkins.

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  • Now, dear friend, Please accept these few words because of the love that is linked with them.

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  • My dear Carrie--You are to look upon it as a most positive proof of my love that I write to you to-day.

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  • Oh dear, what am I thinking about?

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  • Dear God, he thought, I've killed her.

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  • Just now, my dear, there is not a single warrior in your company.

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  • I remember with deepest gratitude the kindness of these dear friends and the happy days I spent with them.

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  • I was delighted to see my dear little friends and I hugged and kissed them.

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  • My dear Mr. Munsell, Surely I need not tell you that your letter was very welcome.

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  • Look at your life, my dear sir.

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  • Dear me, that will make 23 vacan­cies—24 if Mr. Cleary is gone too.

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  • The most reputable of the Jews fled to Egypt; but Onias, a righteous man and dear to God, who had hidden himself, was discovered by the besiegers.

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  • Then I knew that you had not forgotten the dear little child, for the gift brought with it the thought of tender sympathy.

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  • I named him myself after my dear friend Phillips Brooks.

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  • Teacher seems to feel benefitted by the change too; for she is already beginning to look like her dear old self.

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  • Each letter, written in excellent penmanship, began Dear Annie but there were no accompanying envelopes and no addresses.

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  • I can hardly wait patiently for the time to come when I shall see my dear English friends, and their beautiful island home.

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  • But what I consider my crown of success is the happiness and pleasure that my victory has brought dear Teacher.

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  • There is still time, my dear.

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  • I hope, my dear friend, you will carry out your father's wish?

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  • The development of the petroleum fields of the state has greatly stimulated manufactures, as coal has always been dear, whereas the crude oil is now produced very cheaply.

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  • The misery of those years was not, however, unrelieved; for he had been able, on the breaking up of Heloise's convent at Argenteuil, to establish her as head of a new religious house at the deserted Paraclete, and in the capacity of spiritual director he often was called to revisit the spot thus made doubly dear to him.

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  • After 1830, however, many highways were opened, these being usually excellent among the mountains but deteriorating as they descend into the lowlands, where stone is dear.

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  • You known what I have said; sooner or later we must part from all we hold most dear.

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  • There had hardly ever been a period when food had been so dear, when wages had been so low, when poverty had been so widespread, and the condition of the lower orders so depraved and so hopeless, as in the early years of the queens reign.

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  • Dr Nugent eventually took up his residence with his son-in-law in London, and became a popular member of that famous group of men of letters and artists whom Boswell has made so familiar and so dear to all later generations.

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  • The excavation of it was undertaken by Russians about 1894 and it cost Dembre dear; for the Ottoman government, suspicious of foreign designs on the neighbouring harbour of Kekova, proceeded to inhibit all sale of property in the plain and to place Dembre under a minor state of siege.

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  • Bread was dear and employment was scarce.

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  • They could count on the populace, because work was still scarce, food was still dear, and a multi- progress tude of Parisians knew not where to find bread.

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  • He had been sufficiently an optimist to believe in the triumph of the liberal but non-republican institutions dear to him under the restoration, under Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon successively.

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  • Even the costume of the Croatian peasantry, to whom brilliant colours and intricate embroideries are always dear, proclaims their racial identity with the Serbs; their songs, dances and musical instruments, the chief part of their customs and folk-lore, their whole manner of life, so little changed by its closer contact with Western civilization, may be studied in Servia (q.v.) itself.

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  • Should a man's son or friend dear to him as his own soul seek to tempt him from the faith of his fathers, D's pitiless order to that man is "Thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death."

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  • Its reimposition, officially supported for the sake of necessary revenue in war-time, and cordially welcomed by the Unionist party, had justified itself, as they contended, in spite of the criticisms of the Opposition (who raised the cry of the "dear loaf"), by proving during the year to have had no general or direct effect on the price of bread.

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  • Provisions were scarce and dear, communication with the rest of the world was infrequent, and in 1807 the community was threatened with starvation, and flour was sold at £ 200 per ton.

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  • You, dear sir or madam, are making mistakes while I would never slip so blatantly.

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  • Others have embraced this notion of residence but it is contrary to what dear departed Barbara Washington conveyed to me, on her death bed, so to speak.

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  • You and I dear lady have shared that interesting and informative letter you hold so closely and are staining with your tears.

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  • Dear god, let him survive the night!

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  • I'll forgive your indiscretion with the Guardian, my dear.

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  • The old goat—their father—had some land out here and now my dear brother-in law is scared to death Paul and me will get more of it than him—if his wife doesn't end up with the whole thing.

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  • I don't see my dear brother around either.

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  • I don.t know yet, but if it must hurt one of you, it.ll be my dear little brother, who is a blight to Immortals and humans alike.

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  • And what of the dear creature unborn and unknowing who may dwell within my womb?

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  • I plan well what I will say when we are together, but dread of so burdening this dear and gentle man with the troubled future before us causes me to only hold him close and retain my silence.

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  • Dear me, that will make 23 vacan­cies—24 if Mr. Cleary is gone too.

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  • Her stupidity had cost a life this time – the life of a dear friend.

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  • It was the antithesis of everything I hold dear about this country.

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  • My dear wife has the most beautiful eyes god ever bestowed on a person.

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  • Oh dear, I'm almost beginning to feel sorry for the bus anoraks now.

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  • Pausing to consider the antithesis of all we hold dear does not enable us to progress in our understanding of it.

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  • Continue, dear Jesuits, this important apostolate, keeping the spirit of your Founder unchanged.

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  • A dear auntie who will be very much missed.

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  • Dear me, says aw, sir, what's that with?

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  • Well, my poor, dear wife, I, personally, feel sorry for you and the helpless little babes of our loins.

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  • A trip to the pub was needed to help dear my increasingly befuddled brain.

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  • Dear Mark, A simple question I realize, but, exactly what is the difference between a right and wrong bettor in craps?

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  • Dear Star, please stop all this talk of his lordship's bloomer 's, tis quite off putting.

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  • My dear sir, you really are too bountiful.

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  • A dear brother who passed away suddenly at home.

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  • A dear brother-in-law who will be greatly missed, but always remembered.

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  • With a mad cackle she asked me to repeat the order " for the till this time dear " .

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  • You must keep me informed, my dear chap.

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  • You've got sharp claws, my dear, you drop your scales on my clean floor.

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  • Dear Gilbert Murray, I am in receipt of your mail and I really appreciate the compliment.

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  • Dear Editor We would like to publicly congratulate the members of the Junior Pantomime Chorus.

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  • I instructed the congregation to pray for the health and welfare of Reverend Oshimolowo, and for you as well, my dear lady.

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  • Forestall your opponent by seizing what he holds dear, and subtly contrive to time his arrival on the ground.

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  • For the dairy cow the price paid is very dear.

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  • But as he sets out to bury his dear departed wife in fitting style, nothing quite goes to plan.

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  • But, to change the subject, why are you so despondent about my leaving you now, dear mother?

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  • Dear Dr. Hackenbush, I am a graduate student at the University of Michigan interested in geographic mortality differentials in Scotland.

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  • How have you allowed your financial situation to become so dire, my dear girl?

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  • He expresses himself in very discourteous terms about you, my dear Comrade Radek.

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  • Yet, after all, as a friend and companion, I hope never to become quite distasteful to my dear master.

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  • The identity of the killer shouldn't come as too much of a surprise; it's rather elementary my dear Smokey.

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  • Dear Ish, Here's a joke - A little boy opened his big family Bible.

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  • Dear Auntie Al, I quite often get caught fiddling with specimens of ancient Scottish history that are usually very valuable.

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  • The headlong fortune of my rash captivity Strikes not so fierce a wound into my hopes As thy dear loss.

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  • Let me grip your trotter and my dear Mrs Duck - you ought to know your proper gander.

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  • Do you dream yet on your old rickety sofa in the dear old ghastly bankrupt garret at No. 66?

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  • But dark or fair, she is my own dear little girlie, and her mother's pet.

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  • Beloved wife to Ken and a dear mother to Michael and Peter and loving gran to Fraser, Jennifer, Holly and Matthew.

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  • Precious memories of a dear gran, making scones with the angels now.

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  • For a dear grandma who will be sadly missed by all, reunited with Grandad, may you both rest in peace.

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  • Dearest husband of Marcia, dear father of Christopher and Michael, father-in-law of Shirley and Lesley, loving grandpa of Victoria and Marcia.

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  • The dearly loved husband of the late Sadie, dear father of Diana and Eileen, and a beloved grandpa.

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  • It is only when dear old grandpa is discovered to have given him a block of Bethlehem Steel that he becomes really cheerful.

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  • You won't much grieve over our leaving this house, shall you, dear mother?

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  • My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel.

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  • Who among us has not, while composing a " Dear John " letter, fretted over whether to hyphenate " chronic halitosis "?

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  • Our dear friend, Ann Bowling, suffered a fatal cerebral hemorrhage.

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  • To my darling husband, a very dear dad and a loving grandad.

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  • Karim, Stockport Dear friend It sounds like the main problem lies with your mother in-law rather than your in-laws in general.

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  • Although he seems a rather irritable fellow, I am willing to persevere with him for your sake, my dear lady.

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  • Dear YM - I have a 52ft steel ketch with shorepower, connected through an isolating transformer and RCD (residual current device ).

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  • We left the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son.

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  • Happy Birthday dear Tea Bag... But does it make a cuppa quite as good as good old loose leaf?

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  • I intend to post the book to a very dear college lecturer friend in Kuala Lumpur " .

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  • Graham was become dear as her life; he drew her like a powerful magnet.

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  • Eileen & Rusty.. Notts Dear NFWS Thank you for sending the medication to treat mange.

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  • To a dear friend, you are sadly missed.

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  • She is the birth mother of a very dear friend of mine.

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  • I know thou wilt go with me, not only over the border of my dear native country but over the border of time.

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  • But in the song Dear Mr President, she's going for the kind of target most chart stars consider off-limits.

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  • I recall my Uncle, Sonny Wainwright, was employed there as a watchman and my dear old Gran Wainwright worked in the canteen.

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  • Oh no, me dear, " the lady replied with an innocent air that was just a little overdone.

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  • I would dear a woman carrying no purse, who's cargo pants maybe are not stoppable.

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  • I used to to play a little with poor dear papa.

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  • You must forgive my ignorance, my dear fellow, but being a simple country parson, legal matters are not exactly my forte.

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  • Kind regards Jen (25th April 2004) Dear Paul My pink pashmina arrived today - I'm absolutely thrilled with the color.

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  • Thx, Joanne Dear Paul Thank you for the very prompt delivery of the beautiful pashmina stole that the postman delivered this morning.

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  • Values dear in being asked to vince van patten integrated talent financing.

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  • Dear Editor, I can see why Felicity Craig (Newsletter 47) has reservations about the term 'synthetic phonics ' .

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  • Dear Friends, Is your heart broken by the desperate plight of millions of children around the world?

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  • Correct grammer is important, but correct spelling is surely preeminent Oh dear!

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  • All this I presumed was for having being returned to Italy whilst other ranks were enjoying their de-mob back in dear old England.

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  • For both gas sufferers and those near and dear to them, this passive control device offers a win-win proposition.

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  • I'm glad, my dear, you have so much prudence left.

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  • I ask of you, my dear readers, how much did the publican realize from the company that night by selling drink?

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  • Dear Jane, how shall we ever recollect half the dishes for grandmama?

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  • In loving remembrance of dear Mrs Foster, from Gracie.

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  • Dear World Cup fans, Welcome to Heroes 66, the site that celebrates the reunion of the 1966 World Cup finalists.

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  • Regards, David Dear John, I have been given your name by Sid Taylor the owner of the recently builyt riptide Ramillies.

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  • Oh dear, things don't look too rosy for us, do they?

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  • I am still, to this day, apologizing to my dear friend Pierre for dragging him out to witness such sacrilege.

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  • Unity is the only savior for my homeland Macedonia and my dear ethnic Macedonian brothers and sisters in and out of Macedonia!

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  • Dear your generation, That whole, hope I die before I get old thing seems a little silly now, doesn't it?

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  • Well, dear reader (you'll notice I use the singular ), fret no longer!

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  • D wet slightly - says ' too sleepy ' - oh dear.

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  • This one has frilly underskirts, dear little sewn-on dragonflies and fairy wings attached at the back.

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  • Dear Prime Minister I am aware that there is considerable unease in the Catholic community in respect of possible military action against Iraq.

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  • Yes, yes, my dear, let me leave nothing untold however it may damage me in your eyes.

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  • Dear Martin, I have just recently started work to understand and model acoustic attenuation in gas mixtures containing water vapor.

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  • Dearly loved wife of Les, much loved mother of Barry, dear nan of Hannah.

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  • Dear Sir, I am so glad my letter sparked off such delightfully witty replies.

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  • Fairy Powers, so wondrous great, Make our dear Tin Woodman straight!

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  • I won't tell ye how I loved that dear girl.

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  • Dear young people avoid the unequal yoke it is contrary to the word of God.

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  • To you, dear Brother Bishops, I commend this Year, confident that you will welcome my invitation with full apostolic zeal.

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  • The principal authorities for Montrose's career are Wishart's Res gestae, eec. (Amsterdam, 5647); Patrick Gordon's Short Abridgment of Britane's Distemper (Spalding Club); and the comprehensive work of Napier, Memorials of Montrose, is abundantly documented, containing Montrose's poetry, in which is included his celebrated lyric "My dear and only love."

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  • At his death she paid an exceptional tribute to his" dear and honoured memory "from his" grateful and affectionate sovereign and friend."To something like this position Lord Salisbury after 1886 succeeded.

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  • It has been largely borrowed either from previous English or from later German idealism, and what originality it has possessed has been mainly shown in that spirit of eclectic compromise which is so dear to the English mind.

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  • The memory of the courage and devotion with which men, women and even children faced torture, death and ruin for an ideal impossible and undesirable is dear to the Scottish people.

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  • With so powerful a press behind it, it is no wonder that Welsh political dissent was largely responsible for the changed attitude of the Imperial government in its treatment of the Principality - as evinced in the Sunday Closing Act of 1881, a measure which was very dear to the strong temperance party in Wales, and in the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, granted by Lord Salisbury's government in 1889.

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  • His earliest publications were novels, some of which, such as A Fair Saxon (1873), Dear Lady Disdain (1875), Miss Misanthrope (1878), Donna Quixote (1879), attained considerable popularity.

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  • He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

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  • My dear uncle Morrie,--I think you will be very glad to receive a letter from your dear little friend Helen.

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  • One day a dear little baby-boy was born.

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  • I did see the rock in Plymouth and a little ship like the Mayflower and the cradle that dear little Peregrine slept in and many old things that came in the Mayflower.

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  • Soon I shall go home to see my mother and my father and my dear good and sweet little sister.

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  • I hope you will come to Alabama to visit me and I will take you to ride in my little cart and I think you will like to see me on my dear little pony's back.

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  • I cannot know about many things, when my dear teacher is not here.

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  • The dress is blue like your eyes, and candy is sweet just like your dear little self.

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  • I wish you could be here to play three little squirrels, and two gentle doves, and to make a pretty nest for a dear little robin.

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  • I am studying in Boston, with my dear teacher.

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  • How is dear little sister?

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  • My dear Mother, Yesterday I sent you a little Christmas box.

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  • I thank my dear kind father for sending me some money, to buy gifts for my friends.

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  • Sammy has a dear new brother.

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  • I shall always keep them, and it will make me very happy to think that you found them, on that far away island, from which Columbus sailed to discover our dear country.

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  • Why does the dear Father in heaven think it best for us to have very great sorrow sometimes?

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  • I am always happy and so was Little Lord Fauntleroy, but dear Little Jakey's life was full of sadness.

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  • Everybody will feel an interest in dear little Helen; everybody will want to do something for her; and, if she becomes an ancient, gray-haired woman, she is still sure of being thoughtfully cared for.

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  • And my dear father, how he would like to hear about our journey!

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  • We surprised our dear friends, however, for they did not expect us Saturday; but when the bell rung Miss Marrett guessed who was at the door, and Mrs. Hopkins jumped up from the breakfast table and ran to the door to meet us; she was indeed much astonished to see us.

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  • How I wish I could see my own donkey and my dear Lioness!

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  • My Dear Young Friend--I was very glad to have such a pleasant letter on my birthday.

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  • Some relatives and dear old friends were with me through the day.

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  • Please give your dear mother my love.

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  • Please kiss your dear little baby for me, and tell her I have a little brother nearly sixteen months old.

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  • This was the surprise--I was to have the pleasure of taking my dear teacher to see Niagara Falls!...

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  • Mr. Wade is just as dear and good as ever!

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  • Next to my own dear teacher, he has done more than any one else to enrich and broaden my mind.

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  • Dear Frau Grote learned the manual alphabet, and used to teach me herself; but this was in private lessons, which were paid for by my friends.

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  • I do not think I have told you that my dear teacher is reading "The Faery Queen" to me.

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  • The dear, sweet little girl, it makes my heart ache to think how utterly she is cut off from all that is good and desirable in life.

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  • She led the way to the pump-house, and there in the corner was one of the setters with five dear little pups!

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  • He said Dear Helen, Robert was glad to get a letter from dear, sweet little Helen.

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  • How do you do, my dear?

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  • What's one to do, my dear?

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  • What's the good of denying it, my dear?

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  • Heaven only knows, my dear!

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  • Be sure to invite him, my dear.

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  • Remember that, my dear, and be nice to him, as you so well know how to be.

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  • The will will show that, my dear; our fate also depends on it.

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  • What a saute of game au madere we are to have, my dear!

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  • You see, my dear...

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  • Our duty, my dear, is to rectify his mistake, to ease his last moments by not letting him commit this injustice, and not to let him die feeling that he is rendering unhappy those who...

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  • That's not the point, my dear.

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  • Anna Mikhaylovna, addressing a maid who was hurrying past with a decanter on a tray as "my dear" and "my sweet," asked about the princess' health and then led Pierre along a stone passage.

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  • Come, my dear Anna Mikhaylovna, let Catiche do as she pleases.

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  • Dear princess, I beg and implore you, have some pity on him!

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  • Pierre, my dear, come here.

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  • Yes, my dear, this is a great loss for us all, not to speak of you.

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  • Dear and precious Friend, How terrible and frightful a thing is separation!

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  • Our dear Emperor has left Petersburg and it is thought intends to expose his precious person to the chances of war.

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  • I will confess to you, dear Mary, that in spite of his extreme youth his departure for the army was a great grief to me.

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  • Dear and precious Friend, Your letter of the 13th has given me great delight.

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  • What then should I say, if I dared complain, I who am deprived of all who are dear to me?

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  • In regard to this project of marriage for me, I will tell you, dear sweet friend, that I look on marriage as a divine institution to which we must conform.

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  • Adieu, dear and kind friend; may our divine Saviour and His most Holy Mother keep you in their holy and all-powerful care!

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  • No, my dear boy," he continued, "you and your generals won't get on against Buonaparte; you'll have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight together.

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  • What is it, dear?

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  • Look here, my dear fellow, get from Kozlovski all the reports from our scouts.

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  • Dear me, can I have forgotten?

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  • It's not pleasant, but what's to be done, my dear fellow?

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  • Oh, my dear fellow, we're in such a stew here these last two days.

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  • That's just it, my dear fellow.

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  • Not only occupied, but Bonaparte is at Schonbrunn, and the count, our dear Count Vrbna, goes to him for orders.

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  • Good-bye, my dear fellow! and for some unknown reason tears suddenly filled his eyes.

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  • Sit down, dear fellow, sit down!

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  • My dear Helene, be charitable to my poor aunt who adores you.

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  • He is such a worthy and excellent man, our dear Vyazmitinov....

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  • Anna Pavlovna threatened him on behalf of "our dear Vyazmitinov," and in her eyes, which, for an instant, glanced at Pierre, Prince Vasili read a congratulation on his future son-in-law and on his daughter's happiness.

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  • How absent-minded you are, my dear fellow.

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  • Of course, it is a very brilliant match, but happiness, my dear...

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  • Are you going to remain as you are, dear princess? she began.

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  • Now tell me, my dear boy, are you serving in the Horse Guards? asked the old man, scrutinizing Anatole closely and intently.

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  • So, my dear boy, you wish to serve the Tsar and the country?

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  • Decide, my dear, good, gentle Marie, whom I have always loved as a daughter!

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  • My dear, I must tell you that this is a moment I shall never, never forget.

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  • But, my dear, will you not give us a little hope of touching this heart, so kind and generous?

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  • Well, so that's finished, my dear fellow!

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  • Dear me, how you have changed!

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  • Do go somewhere, anywhere... to the devil!" he exclaimed, and immediately seizing him by the shoulder and looking amiably into his face, evidently wishing to soften the rudeness of his words, he added, "Don't be hurt, my dear fellow; you know I speak from my heart as to an old acquaintance."

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  • Well, my dear fellow, so you still want to be an adjutant?

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  • Ah, my dear fellow, what a battle we have gained!

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  • And do you know, my dear fellow, it seems to me that Bonaparte has decidedly lost bearings, you know that a letter was received from him today for the Emperor.

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  • You know I should be very glad to do all in my power both for you and for this dear young man.

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  • Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the village.

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  • Kolya, * dear fellow...

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  • Count Ilya Rostov, laughing and repeating the words, Make way, dear boy!

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  • I know you understand Fedya, my dear count; that, believe me, is why I am so fond of you.

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  • Come here, dear! called the old countess from the drawing room.

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  • Don't be cross, dear!

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  • No, but what is it, my dear?

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  • There is nothing strange in that, my dear sir!

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  • Where are you going to now, my dear sir?

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  • My dear fellow, what have you been up to in Moscow?

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  • Remember, dear boy," and he drew Pierre's arm downwards, "it is simply a misunderstanding.

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  • Let us write her a letter at once, and she'll come here and all will be explained, or else, my dear boy, let me tell you it's quite likely you'll have to suffer for it.

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  • My dear, what does it mean?... she asked, turning to Princess Mary.

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  • The regiment was also a home, and as unalterably dear and precious as his parents' house.

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  • Only excuse me, my dear fellow, I'll give you twenty thousand and a note of hand for eighty thousand as well.

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  • Now you know, Count," she said to Pierre, "even our dear cousin Boris, who, between ourselves, was very far gone in the land of tenderness..."

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  • Yes, he's a dear, but very absurd.

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  • The first death I saw, and one I shall never forget--that of my dear sister-in-law--left that impression on me.

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  • And what do you think, dear friend?

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  • Fetching water clear and sweet, Stop, dear maiden, I entreat--

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  • Though she blamed herself for it, she could not refrain from grumbling at and worrying Sonya, often pulling her up without reason, addressing her stiffly as "my dear," and using the formal "you" instead of the intimate "thou" in speaking to her.

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  • Dear me! there's no recognizing them!

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  • Dear me, there's a Circassian.

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  • Really, how becoming it is to dear Sonya.

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  • What do you think of it, my dear?

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  • Dear count, you must let me look after your daughters!

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  • Do come, dear countess, and give me this flower as a pledge!

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  • No, this is really beyond anything, my dear count, said she to Count Rostov who had followed her in.

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  • He is madly, quite madly, in love with you, my dear.

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  • What will Nicholas, dear noble Nicholas, do when he hears of it?

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  • This foe confounding Thy land, desiring to lay waste the whole world, rises against us; these lawless men are gathered together to overthrow Thy kingdom, to destroy Thy dear Jerusalem, Thy beloved Russia; to defile Thy temples, to overthrow Thine altars, and to desecrate our holy shrines.

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  • Dear one! she kept repeating, wiping away her tears with her fingers.

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  • Poor dear, he's as white as a sheet!--various voices were heard saying.

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  • A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear.

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  • Dear souls, dear kind souls!

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  • Only, for God's sake, Princess dear, have them sent away and don't go out to them.

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  • Ah, how do you do, my dear prince?

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  • How do you do, my dear boy?

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  • No, tell them to bring a small table out here, my dear boy.

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  • I tell you once for all, my dear fellow," said he, "into the fire with all such things!

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  • Oh, come, my dear count!

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  • I know you were friendly with Natalie, and so... but I was always more friendly with Vera--that dear Vera.

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  • Go, my dear fellow, go... and Christ be with you!

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  • Well my dear child, you know how your father's heart rejoices to know that you...

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  • It was taking place at the English Club and someone near and dear to him sat at the end of the table.

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  • You will, won't you, dear?

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  • What is this, my dear?

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  • Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded.

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  • You know, I think, my dear... let them be taken... where's the hurry?

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  • I don't consent, my dear, I don't!

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  • You know how dear Vera wanted a chiffonier like that and how we had a dispute about it.

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  • And dear Vera has long wanted one.

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  • Only I so wanted it, for dear Vera's sake.

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  • My dear, you order what is right....

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  • Yes, my dear Monsieur Pierre, I owe you a fine votive candle for saving me from that maniac....

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  • And you made us pay dear for it.

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  • It is possible to love someone dear to you with human love, but an enemy can only be loved by divine love.

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  • Have you lost anyone, my dear fellow?

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  • But, my dear boy, among other things you are too attentive to the other, the blonde.

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  • My dear boy, what a way to look at it!

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  • No, my dear, you and Sonya ought to understand that.

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  • Don't fret, friend--'suffer an hour, live for an age!' that's how it is, my dear fellow.

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  • And how did they arrest you, dear lad?

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  • Please, my dear fellow, will you sharpen my saber for me?

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  • Well, and what do you think, dear friends?

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  • That's how it was, dear fellows!

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  • On the twenty-ninth of November Kutuzov entered Vilna--his "dear Vilna" as he called it.

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  • The war of 1812, besides its national significance dear to every Russian heart, was now to assume another, a European, significance.

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  • Princess, my dear friend, listen!

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  • Tell me what I am to do, dear princess! he added after a pause, and touched her hand as she did not reply.

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  • Really I don't understand you, my dear.

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  • He looked at Natasha with sorrow and surprise as at a bad likeness of a person once dear.

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  • And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity.

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  • He who sows in hope shall reap in joy; therefore, dear reader, be thou strong, and very courageous.

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  • Dear Tom, We are an architectural reclamation yard based in Northern France.

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  • The audience would often sing ribald songs with explicit amorous lyrics such as Where did the spider bite you, dear?

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  • Thanks Mary James M Dear Mary, I have a fantastic recipe for roast chicken with 40 cloves of garlic.

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  • Oh dear, things do n't look too rosy for us, do they?

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  • Rest soundly Dear Boy I was saddened to read of John 's death.

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  • Unity is the only savior for my homeland Macedonia and my dear ethnic Macedonian brothers and sisters in and out of Macedonia !

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  • Just the thought of those dear little scotty dogs makes us smile now even.

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  • They had come a cropper over pregnant servicewomen, which had cost the Ministry of Defense dear.

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  • Dear Ishmael, I am tring to get hold of the sheet music for ' Blessed is the King who comes '.

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  • Dear your generation, That whole, hope I die before I get old thing seems a little silly now, does n't it?

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  • Well, dear reader (you'll notice I use the singular), fret no longer !

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  • The southwards extension has a ring of dear little children 's chairs.

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  • With thanks in anticipation This email inspired John Lumsdon to writes about the disaster Dear Fionn That is very interesting.

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  • Dear All It is timely to update the industry of recent developments.

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  • It was a happy brooding, although tinged with regret at being separated for an indefinite time from her gentle aunt and dear cousin.

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  • This, dear reader, typifies the kind of luck I have with women.

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  • Dear St. Ann, I have unbounded confidence in your prayers.

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  • They name thee before me, A knell to mine ear; A shudder comes o'er me... Why wert thou so dear?

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  • Fairy Powers, so wondrous great, Make our dear Tin Woodman straight !

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  • Suggested wording for e-mail Dear Mr Grant For 21 years, Mercedes has been kept in a small enclosure in Edinburgh Zoo.

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  • I wo n't tell ye how I loved that dear girl.

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  • Turn off the cell phone and plan to have fun with the people who are most dear to you.

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  • While people have varying religious practices, they can find unity in art that expresses all they hold dear in their faith.

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  • Dear C,I don't believe that wearing eyeliner and mascara causes pink eye.

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  • Dear Dana,I have blue eyes, with strawberry blonde hair and LOTS of freckles.

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  • Dear Dana,What is the most popular color of lipstick sold in the United States?

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  • Dear Dana,I have a cool undertone, hazel eyes, and brown brows.

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  • Dear RAD,Actually, lining the inside of your lids will make your eyes look smaller.

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  • Dear Dana,Hi, I'm 16 (with brown eyes!) and I am pretty new to makeup.

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  • Dear New2Makeup,My suggestion is to try using two colors on your lids.

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  • Dear Pam,One of the tried-and-true remedies for bags and puffiness is something you may not think of, Preparation H!

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  • They may be spending some extra time outdoors, going on vacation, attending a dear friend's wedding (the tears do tend to roll!) or just prefer something that's completely budge-proof and reliable.

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  • The collection of nudeswas a project that was near and dear to Nimoy’s heart.

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  • Dear NerdyPrettyGirl,Being a professional model and making a living at it is really tough, and brutal on your self esteem and body.

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  • Either way, having a really dear "friend-girl" is very special and fortunate.

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  • Dear Melissa and Katie, I have a couple of questions, but first let me tell you a little about myself.

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  • Dear Rebecca, I just answered a similar question from a guy who is going through the same thing.

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  • Dear Lisa,When you're a freshman in high school, a two week relationship can pack enough post-break up drama to last until graduation.

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  • Dear Teen Team, My 17yr old daughter and I have been having issues with texting lately.

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  • My Dear Valentine has a special section on their site devoted to short love poems.

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  • I put on an extra coat of clear nail polish to make sure that my beautifully manicured fingernails would be flawless when I walked down the aisle and my dear sister was constantly checking on me to see if I was really okay.

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  • Dear Sharon, My fiance and I are having a destination wedding that only 7 people will be attending.

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  • Dear Sharon, Our 2 daughters are getting married together in a double wedding ceremony.. they would like their bridal shower to be one together. is there a certain way to do this? we dont have any idea how to do a shower for them together.

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  • Dear Sharon,I was recently invited to a wedding of a friend from high school.

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  • Dear Sharon,Both my fiance and I have been married once before, I have a child from a former marriage.

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  • Dear Uncle Mark and Aunt Susan,Robert and I appreciate the gift of money you gave to us.

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  • Dear Caroline,Patrick and I just wanted to express our gratitude to you for all of your help in decorating for our wedding reception.

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  • This all-in-one event is also an opportunity to see and enjoy a new place with the people you hold dear.

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  • I also was in a group of 20-25 fairly new AA members and we hung on to each other for dear life.

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  • April Masini is the Dear Abby of the new millennium and a recognized dating expert.

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  • With seven-time, All-Around World Champion bull rider Ty Murray teaching the stars about the finer points of holding on for dear life, it would seem that most would walk away with only minor bumps and bruises.

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  • Not to be outdone by actress-turned-fashion-designers Hilary Duff or the Olsen twins, Amanda Bynes released a fashion line called "Dear" that includes accessories and clothing.

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  • She made guest appearances on a handful of TV shows, including Party of Five, Brotherly Love and Yes, Dear, and did several commercials.

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  • Further appearances included being a guest on Oprah, as well as guest parts on established shows such as Boston Legal, The Practice, and Yes Dear.

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  • Dear Kelly, I have an eight-month-old Miniature Pinscher puppy who has recurring skin problems.

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  • On Tuesday I was lucky enough to have a dear friend and dog behaviorist Shelby Marlo, CPDT on my show.

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  • Dear Loyd,Asparagus is grown in trenches.

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  • It also allows gamers to revisit classics from retro systems that either hold very dear places in their hearts or titles that may have even flown under the radar the first time around.

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  • Video games have only been around for a few decades, but there are already many classic titles that are consistently near and dear to the hearts of many players around the world.

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  • We've got classics like The Legend of Zelda and Super Smash Bros., but many gamers will always hold the racing genre near and dear to their hearts.

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  • From their Château d'Ampuis in the Côte-Rôtie in the northern Rhône Valley, Guigal produces luscious but prohibitively dear single-vineyard wines, La Landonne, La Mouline, and La Turque.

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  • Ergo, they are not everyday drinking wines and the good ones are on the dear side.

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  • And if that happens, stemware, good stemware, can be dear to purchase and double-dear to replace.

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  • Dear Mary, I just read your article on air mattresses.

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  • Dear Camping Expert, many sleeping bags have the opportunity to zip two of them together.

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  • Mourning the Loss of a Pet shows you that is OK to grieve over the loss of a dear pet.

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  • Aside from the worst case scenario of learning one of your dear ancestors was a career criminal, you may find that your ancestor was a plaintiff or a witness in a case.

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  • Dear Mary,I am a qualified pediatrician.

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  • Dear Anouche - There's no reason to feel embarrassed about deciding to change careers.

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  • Dear Vohra - Congratulations in being so proactive in making college and career plans.

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  • Dear Mary I am looking for job openings in Presque Isle,Maine-04769.How do I check on the web site for any openings at all around the area.

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  • Dear Mary, What is the best way to address the fact that you were fired from your last position at a job interview?

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  • On the other side of the coin, working for a nonprofit with a mission you hold dear to your heart can be extremely rewarding.

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  • In 2007, she designed her own fashion line called Dear by Amanda that consisted of apparel and accessories.

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  • For example, you wouldn't write a letter starting with "Dear Mr. Henderson" to someone you have been on a first name basis with for years, and vice versa.

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  • Dear Jane,As some of you may know, I have participated in the Walk for Breast Cancer for the past several years.

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  • If you're not using a mail merge, you can simply write, "Dear Friend," but most people prefer their mail to be personalized.

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  • If the recipient has a charity or cause that is dear to them, consider a gift card to TisBest, which allows them to choose what charity they wish to donate money to using the card.

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  • Dear LoriI really like this Asian girl but, do not know how to get her to go out with me.

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  • Dear Lori, Now for another question - How frequently should I call?

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  • For those people, Kim still provides some assistance through her Dear Kim section.

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  • Dear Lori, My girlfriend of almost 2 years (I'm 25 she's 21) and I just recently broke up.

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  • Dear Lori, I have been dating this guy for the past year.

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  • Dear Lori,Next fortnight, I am getting married.

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  • Dear Dhiman,Congratulations on getting married soon and on all of the progress you've made building a long distance romance.

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  • Dear Lori,I have a boyfriend who is very loving and affectionate.

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  • Hello dear Lori, I have recently been dating a friend of about 6 months for the past few weeks.

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  • Dear Lori,I am a 19 year old college student who is both hateful and still in love with a boy I was with in high school.

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  • Dear Lori,I'm 18 and I've never had a boyfriend, nor have I ever gone on a date and I can't flirt at all.

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  • Dear Lori,I've recently started dating a good friend of mine.

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  • Dear Lori, I recently had a second date with a woman whom I feel very interested in.

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  • Dear Lori, There is a professional woman at work who, when I first met her, told me how much she was looking forward to working with me.

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  • Dear Lori, I have never written to anyone for advice before but i really need someone to talk to and get some good advice.

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  • Dear Lori, I have been involved with a man for almost a year who is married in an arranged marriage.

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  • Dear Lori,I am 22 years old and have never been on a date or been involved in a relationship.

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  • Dear Lori, I have been married for 5 years and we have a 5-year-old son.

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  • Dear Lori,I can't believe I am even in this situation.

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  • Dear Lori, I am 15 years old and I'm very confused.

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  • Dear Lori, over the past few years, I have had incredible difficulty being able to commit to a relationship.

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  • You can skip a lot of the background details that you may of otherwise included in your answer to the "how was your day dear" question.

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  • Dear Lori, My girlfriend and I have been together for 1 year and 7 months.

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  • Dear Lori , I chose you to help me because I think you are supervising this site and you have experience.

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  • Dear Lori, I waited one year after my husband moved out to try dating again.

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  • Dear Lori, I have been looking everywhere for books to help or maybe group classes that I could attend in person or online.

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  • Dear Lori, I've been with my boyfriend for a year now and he has suddenly changed on me.

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  • Dear Lori, Please explain to me why online dating has so much controversy.

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  • Dear Lori, My live in girlfriend of five years has been seeing a guy behind my back for about a couple of weeks now.

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  • Regulators control another person's speech (e.g., knitting eyebrows as if to say, "Time to shut up, dear.").

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  • Dear John,You are the most fortunate man on the planet, for you receive a Dear John letter anytime someone writes to you, but you are luckier still because my Dear John letters are unmatched in their love, appreciation and tenderness.

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  • You send me flowers, I send you a Dear John.

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  • You send me tickets to my favorite musical, I send you a Dear John.

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  • You send me a diamonds for my birthday, I send you a Dear John.

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  • You have a history with your ex and you will always have some dear feelings towards the person, but that doesn't mean that you are not over him or her.

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  • Kiss off letters, or "Dear John" notes are non-confrontational correspondences used to end a relationship.

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  • Greeting - Besides the generic "Dear John" or "Dear Jane," you might decide to employ a sarcastic greeting like, "Dear Loser" or "Hey Idiot."

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  • Many people who receive "Dear John" letters feel angry and may have many unanswered questions.

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  • Before sending such an announcement, be sure close family members and dear friends already know the happy news so they will not feel shocked or slighted when opening a more formalized announcement.

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  • Yes, you, dear friend, are the reason why briefcases were created.

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  • Finding something that is both meaningful and fun for the kids can be a challenge; however, you will find that there is no lack of enthusiasm when it comes to kids showing off how much they love dear old dad.

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  • Dancing en pointe is a dream that beginner dancers hold dear.

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  • Consider wrapping a dragon around another tattoo that you hold dear.

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  • For anyone who wishes to memorialize a lost love or a dear friend that has passed, there are options outside of the norm.

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  • If you are considering getting a tattoo to memorialize the life of someone dear to you, take some time to select the best artist for you.

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  • Usually it starts with "Dear" and includes the last name of the recipient and most often a title.

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  • Stay formal unless you know the recipient of the letter - Avoid a casual salutation such as "Dear Bob" unless you have spoken with the recipient and have called him "Bob" during that conversation.

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  • Otherwise, a more formal salutation such as "Dear Mr. Johnson" might be more appropriate.

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  • In a business letter, "Dear" is usually used for the salutation followed by the name of the person.

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  • You may also use the full name if gender is uncertain; such as "Dear Chris Morgan."

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  • The tone of the letter should be informal and start with "Dear Friends", "Greetings", or just "Hi" It depends on how well you know the person or people and how long you have been at that job.

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  • Follow this information with a line space, and then add your salutation, which can begin "Dear Mr." or "Dear Ms." followed by his or her last name.

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  • The offerings include Dear Bird, Ellegy, and Innocence.

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  • Dear ABH,We need to eat a certain amount of calories every day to ensure we get enough energy and nutrients to keep us healthy.

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  • Elementary My Dear, which can be used for a more domineering look in that it's a plaid snap front bustier and the skirt features a pleather belt.

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  • Dear Haley/Can you save me from the borrowed cloud I'm on?

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  • A hit single on Christian radio followed for Nick in 2005 (Joy to The World - A Christmas Prayer), which was followed by yet another hit, Dear God.

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  • In Dear Mama, he talks about the struggles of his youth, the struggles he had with his mother, and his growing understanding of the situation she faced trying to help him grow up strong in poverty.

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  • You'll want all those people near and dear to the graduate to be able to attend, so do send out those graduation invitations with plenty of time for folks to adjust their schedules accordingly.

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  • Strangely enough, this isn't so; while server space and applications abound, there's a power in a domain name that makes it too dear to simply be provided gratis.

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  • Dear Owner, Thank you for allowing us to sheal your pet.

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  • Did you get her car off the cliff, dear?

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  • I thought of leaving a note of thanks to the Psychic Tipster, so kindly confiding to me, albeit vicariously through dear departed Brenda, his or her limitations.

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  • I dear say I'm amply protected.

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  • I knew from my in depth research, the number and location of all payphones bearing the area code and first two numbers dear Brenda provided me.

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  • It is gratifying my dear, that you are sufficiently astute to recognize my skill and superiority.

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  • Then what shall I do with them, my dear?

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  • That is not the fate for you, my dear.

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  • My dear, what I do, I do for us and our future.

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  • Is that a problem, dear?

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  • I visited dear Tamer and spent most of the day with him and his records.

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  • My dear half-brother Erik went into hiding and hasn't been seen in weeks, leaving his part of the world completely exposed.

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  • What is it, my dear?

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  • No one I couldn't handle, dear.

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  • My thought was that it was a like a time bomb, awaiting the right moment for our dear deity to reemerge, Wynn said.

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  • It wasn't bait, dear.

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  • Another wild adventure by the black sheep of a sister that was dear Hannah's.

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  • Hannah, dear, please instruct the servants that Rhyn and Katherine are given whatever they ask for.

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  • So many have come to my bed, but never have I been so unnerved by a nocturnal visitor than when first dear Joshua visited me in the darkest part of the night.

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  • I'd go out and buy a gun and shoot you in every part of your body that you hold dear and then finish you off right between your eyes.

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  • But all too soon my condition will be displayed for all to see, and then, only dear God can help me!

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  • Because you, my dear, are a masochist.

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  • You should go quickly, before I change my mind, my dear.

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  • My uncle tells me this is why I must wait until my dear son is six or seven summers.

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  • I compiled this for my dear Rissa, but I fear the demon will prevent me from giving it to her.

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  • Then you will lose the only other thing you hold dear.

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  • She'll run to her dear brother, the Black God, who will crush you.

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  • He passed the remainder of his life at Wittenberg, braving the perils of war and persecution rather than desert the place dear to him as the home of the Reformation.

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  • The more conservative members strongly opposed them as premature, whereupon Henry supported them in a speech familiar to the American school-boy for several generations following, closing with the words, "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ?

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  • A very charming piece of work of a lighter kind was inspired by a question from his friend, Mrs Katherine Phillips (the "matchless Orinda"), asking "How far is a dear and perfect friendship authorized by the principles of Christianity?"

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  • The Scottish bowmen followed up this advantage, and the fight became general; the English horse, crowded into too narrow a space, were met by the steady resistance of the Scottish pikemen, who knew, as Bruce had told them truly, that they fought for their country, their wives, their children, and all that freemen hold dear.

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  • There Julius Caesar dallied with Cleopatra in 47 B.C. and was mobbed by the rabble; there his example was followed by Antony, for whose favour the city paid dear to Octavian, who placed over it a prefect from the imperial household.

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  • Owing to the distances over which they are carried and the bad organization of trade, all manufactured articles are exceedingly dear, especially in the east.

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  • Machiavelli calls luxury, simony and cruelty the three dear friends and handmaids of the same pope.'

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  • A majority of the artists are content to copy old pictures of Buddhas sixteen disciples, the seven gods of happiness, and other similar assemblages of mythical or historical personages, not only because such work offers large opportunity for the use of striking colors and the production of meretricious effects, dear to the eye of the average Western householder and tourist, but also because a complicated design, as compared with a simple one, has the advantage of hiding the technical imperfections of the ware.

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  • He declared himself a Tory, attached himself to Harley (afterwards Lord Oxford), then speaker, whom he now addressed as "dear master," and distinguished himself by his eloquence in debate, eclipsing his schoolfellow, Walpole, and gaining an extraordinary ascendancy over the House of Commons.

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  • At present its full name is Buka`a el-'Aziz (the dear Buka'a), and its northern portion is known as Sahlet Baalbek (the plain of Baalbek).

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  • House rent, provisions, clothing, are all very dear, and more than counterbalance the lowness of rates.

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  • For nearly five years (202-207) the Carthaginian Montanists strove to remain within the Church, which was as dear to them as it was to their opponents.

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  • When later in the same year, however, Henry Phillpotts, bishop of Exeter, died, the prime minister turned again to Temple, and he accepted the bishopric of that city so dear to him from boyhood, and left Rugby for a home amongst his own people.

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  • These general addresses, published under the title Bestimmung des Gelehrten (Vocation of the Scholar), were on a subject dear to Fichte's heart, the supreme importance of the highest intellectual culture and the duties incumbent on those who had received it.

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  • His " Debby," or his " dear child," as Franklin usually addressed her in his letters, received into the family, soon after her marriage, Franklin's illegitimate son, William Franklin (1729-1813), 2 with whom she afterwards quarrelled, and whose mother, tradition says, was Barbara, a servant in the Franklin household.

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  • He occupies a high place as a hymnologist, but principally as a translator of ancient and medieval hymns, the best known being probably "Brief life is here our portion," "To thee, 0 dear, dear country," and "Jerusalem, the golden," which are included in the poem of Bernard of Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, translated by him in full.

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  • Winthrop's company were nonconformists but not separatists, esteemed it " an honour to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother," emigrated that they might be divided from her corruptions, not from herself.

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