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Others reported small or "tollerable" assortments of medicine.
Drug Supplies in the American Revolution George B. Griffenhagen
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Robert Carter acknowledges to London merchant John Goodwin, September 17, 1705, the arrival of accounts concerning the estate of Ralph Wormeley of which he is one of several trustee, notes that the price realized for the estate's tobacco is "tollerable," and reports that he is shipping 16 hogsheads of the estate's tobacco on the John Adventure.
Letter from Robert Carter to John Goodwin, 1705 September 17 1705
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But I love him so much and my heart breaks because he makes me feel so unloved and unwanted … unless when he wants something from me … or when I'm "tollerable" to him.
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Actually, I find Cook more tollerable when he's NOT playing to his "strengths".
Even Fans Don't Want Dane Cook in Movies Anymore! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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I think one episode at a time would be tollerable - sigh.
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I think one episode at a time would be tollerable - sigh.
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Packages were tollerable when there were 30-40 cable channels, but not today.
Exploding TV: Death on the a la carte menu « BuzzMachine 2005
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Videos that are not very good are much more tollerable than music that is not very good.
iLike Brings Free Indy Music to iTunes Recommendations Marshall Kirkpatrick 2005
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Phineo allowed his excuses to be tollerable, and saide beside; If my Son will not marry your
The Decameron 2004
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Quiver of Arrowes, overclouds all with his religious Monkes Cowle, and then with a parting kisse or two, returned to the place where he had left his fellow and companion, perhaps imployed in as devout an exercise, as he had bin in his absence from him; whence both repayring home to the Monastery, all this nightes wandering was allowed as tollerable, by them who made no spare of doing the like.
The Decameron 2004
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