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Examples
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Sir, I neuer lou'd you much, but I ha 'prais'd ye,
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How do we keep the false prais of Obama going say CNN.
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I can't prais or condemn the decision to include immunity because I just don't know enough of the relevant facts .... but I doubt Hunter does either.
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I was sure that the bit about "prais [ing] his eloquence" was referring to another racial gaffe.
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Yu mai goze tu tai booteak enny tiem. duz nawt hab tu be jus wen tawp commintingz. dey hab ennyfing yur liddul hart ebur imajind nd da prais iz rite.
He shoots! He scores! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ai go tu shepeskin cloths place nd getz scrapz nd sumtiemz dey getz et tu. but prais wuz rite.
My cat toy has a 1st name - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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It is indeed a corollary of utilitarianism that an action is to be praised if the consequences of prais - ing it are good, not if the consequences of doing it are good.
UTILITARIANISM D. H. MONRO 1968
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Union where those Ducks abound nothing need be added in prais of the exquisit flavor of this duck.
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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I am informed that they have latterly almost entirely disapeared. the epicures of those parts of the Union where those Ducks abound nothing need be added in prais of the exquisit flavor of this duck.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791
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I will prais the Nepali people for everything they did for reaching this historical step forward and I am very hopefull that the war now is really over.
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