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- verb Present participle of
despatch .
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Examples
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No time was lost in despatching three messengers: one to the
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When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set about his purpose by first snatching the young babe and casting it into the fire!
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When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set
Twenty-two years a slave, and forty years a freeman--, 1793-1860 1857
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When Severin found he could get no more intoxicating beverage, he in his demoniacal rage, conceived the idea of despatching his whole family, and set about his purpose by first snatching the young babe and casting it into the fire!
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 1856
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Numerous batches of prisoners are drifting back, for the most part unattended, composed entirely of youths of nineteen and twenty years of age, the Guards having refused to kill these babies, only "despatching" the older men, for the
Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery C. A. Rose
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The party had considered the possibility of disaster for one man, and that had been the principal reason for despatching the two in different directions.
Chapter VIII 2010
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She took charge of him, lifting his head to keep the blood out of it and despatching me to the cabin for a pillow.
Chapter 36 2010
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Well Marc there are two sides to every story I grant you that and we are very lucky with some of our control room staff who have some experience and are very good at despatching calls/keeping tabs.
If I Can’t Have You Nobody Can « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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"Ay, it is Neepoosa," the old woman replied, drawing her inside the tent, and despatching a boy, hot-footed, on some errand.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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Are parents acting selfishly and should they think much harder about the ramifications of despatching a sick child to school?
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