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Wilkie5 must be merely painting for money, — his are sad fallings-off.
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After poor Erin, my sainted instructor, had hoisted me back on the horse, we cantered again on that side, no fallings-off, then tried again on the other side.
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After poor Erin, my sainted instructor, had hoisted me back on the horse, we cantered again on that side, no fallings-off, then tried again on the other side.
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These head were not enfeebled by cuttings nor thinned by fallings-off, but were forests in all their native virginity!
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Michael Ignatieff replies: The divisions between the English and American legal and political traditions are not "fallings-off and faults," as Robert Conquest writes, but increasingly salient differences of view about the proper balance between private rights and public welfare.
The 'Anglosphere' Conquest, Robert 2000
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He notes the fallings-off and faults to be found in the US and the UK; so do I, over two chapters.
The 'Anglosphere' Conquest, Robert 2000
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That was why he decided to make for the highest point he could reach in the beginning, so that his very fallings-off would be glorious and would pay him as no gradual working up and up could possibly be made to pay.
The Belfry May Sinclair 1904
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In the last chapter an attempt will be made to analyze these, for the present I can only indicate some of the fallings-off noticeable in _Manalive_, and leave it at that.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Julius West 1904
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These head were not enfeebled by cuttings nor thinned by fallings-off, but were forests in all their native virginity!
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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