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I have seen neither the photos nor the rules, but if the photos violate the rules-or rather, if her silence about them did-then the pageant is well within its rights to strip her of her title (padon the pun).
WordPress.com News 2009
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I have seen neither the photos nor the rules, but if the photos violate the rules-or rather, if her silence about them did-then the pageant is well within its rights to strip her of her title (padon the pun).
WordPress.com News mbalinsky 2009
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It was my fault to have danced in such a place, — I beg your padon to have asked you to dance there.”
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It was my fault to have danced in such a place, -- I beg your padon to have asked you to dance there. "
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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