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This leaves a substantial and unquestioned majority for each of the contestors in the county, and which entitles each contestor to be declared elected to the office for which he was a candidate.
King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923
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Conjuro, continued the Dominie, abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!
Chapter XLVI 1917
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‘Conjuro,’ continued the Dominie, ‘abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!’
Guy Mannering 1815
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Cat Power (isn't that a delightful name?) when I was reading a thread on the Makansutra forum where someone was looking for an activity to do with his fiancee as sort of a premarital getting-to-know-you thingy, much like those religious premarital workshops one has to sit through with a celibate conscientious contraceptive contestor, only less passive.
food.recentrunes.com 2009
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a demagogue for Parliament, a contestor of counties, and a
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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