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  • But there is no end of these debatings; each so faultless, each so full of self —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • A pretty common case, I believe, in all vehement debatings.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • A pretty common case, I believe, in all vehement debatings.

    Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

  • The _un_veracities, escorted each unveracity of them by its corresponding misery and penalty; the phantasms and fatuities, and ten-years 'corn-law debatings, that shall walk the earth at noonday, must needs be numerous!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

  • All the troubles of States proceed from such debatings.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • And again, do not we squeak and gibber (in our discordant, screech-owlish debatings and recriminatings); and glide bodeful and feeble and fearful; or uproar (_poltern_), and revel in our mad Dance of the Dead, -- till the scent of the morning-air summons us to our still Home; and dreamy Night becomes awake and Day?

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • You see the intensified relief which this brought to our Lord, the keen satisfaction He felt as He heard it distinctly and solemnly uttered as the creed of the Twelve; as He heard what hitherto He could only have gathered from casual expressions, from wistful awe-struck looks, from overheard questionings and debatings with one another.

    How to become like Christ Marcus Dods 1871

  • Banish him your revels and your debatings, prohibit him your Christmas, lend no ear either to his panics or his testiness, especially none to his rages; do not report him at all, and he will soon subside into his domestic, varied by pothouse, privacy.

    Celt and Saxon — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • Banish him your revels and your debatings, prohibit him your Christmas, lend no ear either to his panics or his testiness, especially none to his rages; do not report him at all, and he will soon subside into his domestic, varied by pothouse, privacy.

    Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Banish him your revels and your debatings, prohibit him your Christmas, lend no ear either to his panics or his testiness, especially none to his rages; do not report him at all, and he will soon subside into his domestic, varied by pothouse, privacy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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