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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

  • ‘Conjuro, ’ continued the Dominie, ‘abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!

    Chapter XLVI 1917

  • ‘Conjuro,’ continued the Dominie, ‘abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!’

    Guy Mannering 1815

  • 'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'

    Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

  • 'Conjuro,' continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!'

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • 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

  • 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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