How To Use Plea In A Sentence
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I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
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The carbonation is a little heavier than what I normally expect in a stout, but not unpleasantly so.
Miasmatic Review
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Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers.
Little Women
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All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality.
Erema — My Father's Sin
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OK, the steering is a little foggy, but the wheel unquestionably feels pleasant under the fingers.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did not seem overcome with pleasure at the idea of Philippa's visit, and she felt a little disappointed, but she had been interested in his talk; and as she went back to the house with Miss Mervyn, her mind was so full of it, that she felt obliged to tell her all about Tuvvy and Dennis, and her own plans for Becky's benefit.
Black, White and Gray A Story of Three Homes
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I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
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The language is amusingly flowery and the overall tone one of purposeful pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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While San Mateo is a pleasant destination for home shopping and browsing, it also has excellent restaurants and cafes.
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Please be assured that eHarmony uses robust security measures, including password hashing and data encryption, to protect our members' personal information.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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Dr. Orkborne, much incommoded by this second interruption, coldly begged to know his pleasure.
Camilla
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He was in awe of China and pleaded that if India should progress it should learn a lesson or two from the communist regime.
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Britain is no longer green and pleasant.
The Sun
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But Arthur's do-gooder streak didn't particularly please other Republicans, and he became one of the few Presidents to fail to win his own party's nomination for re-election.
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I'm pleased I didn't get that job, in a funny sort of way.
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Please urge all ultralight owners with BRS units (or even hand-deploy parachutes) to re-evaluate the series of attachments that connect the pilot to the airplane, to the parachute, and to both.
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So I'm pleased to introduce our first presenter , one of the stars of Traffic , Catherine Zeta - Jones .
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We spent them and traded them and frittered them away on drink and food and pleasurable company.
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His Eminence Don Pelasio de Labastida, an eighteenth century bishop of Mexico City set a scandalous example of such indulgence in earthly pleasures.
To the charreada with stars in her eyes
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The unpleasant truth is that hiding behind private ownership only hides the fall in value from people who choose not to look.
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Loman is a rather unpleasant figure throughout much of the play, a boastful blowhard, a bully, a coward.
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For the viewer or the reader, this can be a pleasant experience, a feeling of ease, without boredom or dullness.
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And Nauru, which was once named Pleasant Island, which sounds like a good place to be right now.
CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2006
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Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
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I was watching the match in a pub without sound, and I had forgotten about it, so it was not until I got home that I realised that Langer had taken a hat trick, and that was why the West Indian fieldsmen all looked so pleased.
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Naturally, her husband was very pleased and only too happy to oblige with the ‘work.’
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NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student.
The Buffalo News: Home
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Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
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Ms. Miller's imprisonment for civil contempt of court was less a perfect storm — to use one of the press 'hoarier clichés to characterize a grim convergence of unpleasant events — as it was a brownout, a distressing midsummer sign that a full power outage is on its way.
The Great D.C. Plame-Out, Or: Novak, Lord of the Journo-Flies
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Even if an agreement is cobbled together it will not please everyone.
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At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. '
Shining Ferry
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His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression.
A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
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Sign your name at the bottom of the page, please.
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I'm pleased to say that he is now doing well.
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I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions
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The two merchants didn't look entirely pleased to have the players mooching off of their business, but it was obvious to the eyes of an outsider that the music was actually attracting customers.
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A 35-year-old Briton languishing in a Bangkok jail under sentence of death for a crime he says he did not commit is planning to protest his innocence by refusing to plead for a royal pardon.
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Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape.
The Decameron
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The result is a species of amphitheatric arena, in which any of the dramatic exhibitions, that are so pleasing to this spectacle-loving nation, may be enacted.
Recollections of Europe
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BPL and Coca-Cola league letterset/font
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He did in these extremities, as I conceive, most humbly recommend the direction of his judicial proceedings to the upright judge of judges, God Almighty; did submit himself to the conduct and guideship of the blessed Spirit in the hazard and perplexity of the definitive sentence, and, by this aleatory lot, did as it were implore and explore the divine decree of his goodwill and pleasure, instead of that which we call the final judgment of a court.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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The other honour that gave him particular pleasure was his honorary doctorate from Melbourne University.
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No more brown and white tiles or horrendous cheapo panelling, please.
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Relaxing, in amusement at her unwonted altruism of motive, she had drawn her moleskin coat more closely around her, and settled back to wait the other woman's pleasure in returning to the bright warmth that the pale-orange ribbon of light, wavering upon the swaying platform, harbingered.
Undesirables
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We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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Can you pass the salt please?
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Please don't stand on ceremony with me.
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Please contact our agent in Spain for further information.
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Just getting anyone in the area to tell the platoon where the former mukhtar lived had taken three months of pleading, and after several false leads that day, the soldiers had found him.
The Coming Normalcy?
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We must think of ourselves, not in terms of the satisfaction we get, from what we eat, or enjoy as pleasure, or entertainment today.
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Yes the win in Riesa was pleasing as I was wearing a normal costume and was unrested, unshaved and untapered so that's always a confidence boost
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The creature lives in the remote parts of the Upper Amazon and has a “particularly unpleasant habit of infesting humans”, the scientists say.
New Species Of Nose-Dwelling Leech Discovered | Impact Lab
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I was too pleased with my own hard-won epiphany that the film's title is a palindrome to even notice that the credits had started rolling.
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He continued he'd no doubt she would make an excellent councillor for the Ward 3 area and he had great pleasure in proposing her for the seat.
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Please call if you require assistance.
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It was a pleasure to present the awards last Friday and to see so many adults attend to show their appreciation and support for these champions of literature.
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If this name displeases you somehow, you can change it in the
LXer Linux News
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Breads, pastries, rice and legume dishes were on display for the viewing and tasting pleasure of interested patrons.
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A teenager, scarred for life when she was bottled in the face in a nightclub row, is pleading for witnesses to come forward.
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It was the first time I had met the pleasant bloke, though he had registered four years back.
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Please add these names on to your list.
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Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange!
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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Please let's change and be people with brave hearts and forget all about violence against any particular sex in this independent country.
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Measles, mumps and rubella are unpleasant diseases and an epidemic in this country would be disastrous.
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Among Lelouch's films starring Ms. Girardot was 1969's "Un homme qui me plait" "A Man Who Pleases Me", in which she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Obituaries of note: Annie Girardot, Greg Goossen, Eddie Kirkland
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Press the pleats with the stitching centred over the tapes to form two inverted pleats on the right side of the blind.
Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
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Hello there, can we please have your age, occupation, where you are from and where you are now?
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So they plead with her to give them a taste of the flavored milk.
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The decor at Cargill's is pleasant, if unmemorable and far from cutting edge, but that helps lend an approachable tone to the whole establishment.
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'The first principles of commercial activity have retreated to earth's maziest penetralia, where no tides are! is it not so, Skepsey?' said Mr. Fenellan, whose initiative and exuberance in loquency had been restrained by a slight oppression, known to guests; especially to the guest in the earlier process of his magnification and illumination by virtue of a grand old wine; and also when the news he has to communicate may be a stir to unpleasant heaps.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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‘I thought my lads did very well and I was pleased with their effort,’ said Sinnott.
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Please wedge this cabinet to keep it from tipping.
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Their pleasures derive from fulfilling internal wishes and desires and they find solitude easy to bear.
Know Your Own Mind
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Please get to the point. Don't beat about the bush.
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We then walked through a natural arch in the rock, which might have pleased us by its novelty, had the stones, which incumbered our feet, given us leisure to consider it.
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Let her shelter you as is her pleasure and as her kind heart will have her do.
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It was said that national crimes can only be, and frequently are, punished in this world by _national punishments_, and that the continuance of the slave trade, and thus giving it a national character, sanction, and encouragement, ought to be considered as justly exposing us to the displeasure and vengeance of him who is equally the Lord of all, and who views with equal eye the poor _African slave_ and his _American master_! [
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
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Eating has always been preeminently a human, communal and convivial pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Please press the button down.
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Adz mile purr our less den lite speed butin too teh remote. dere. nao it kumpleat.
Hmmm. You make - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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His travel books have given pleasure to generations of armchair travellers.
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Rabbit behavior My 12 week old lop ear house rabbit has a thing about nibling my son and she hurts him. how can i stop her from doing it coz he is now starting to get scared of her. i tell him its a sign of affection and i dont want him scared of her please help
Answerbag: Latest Questions in Question Categories
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Sexual pleasure between Greek male citizens and boys was legitimate and socially sanctioned, however if the boy become a free citizen (an equal) their sexual practice become problematised.
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But now it is reported that your Englishmen (whom I may almost call the lordes of the Ocean sea) make yeerely voyages vnto Gronland: concerning which matter if you please to giue me further aduertisement, you shall doe me an especial fauour.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Things which experience gradual withdrawings and emptyings of their nature, and great and sudden replenishments, fail to perceive the emptying, but are sensible of the replenishment; and so they occasion no pain, but the greatest pleasure, to the mortal part of the soul, as is manifest in the case of perfumes.
Timaeus
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Why do men listen with more strict attention to an inflammatory harangue, that may not be argumentative, than to a prosaical discourse, that is, to an anecdote than to a prayer, to an extravaganza than to a lecture, or derive more pleasure from pantomimic drollery than from Hamlet, or hearing an opera they do not understand than from reading an essay they do.
A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.
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And she, warm with what Dick had just told of him, pleasured at the goodly sight of him, dwelling with her eyes on the light, high poise of head, the careless, sun-sanded hair, and the lightness, almost debonaireness, of his carriage despite his weight of body and breadth of shoulders.
CHAPTER XXIII
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Those of you who remember the lime and ginger scheme will be pleased to hear that it has been redone using damson, with gold trimming.
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It's a real dilemma but please don't think of cheating or tricking your partner.
The Sun
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When I sat up again, I felt a pleasant glow spreading from my shoulder down to my elbow, and I found that the arm had complete freedom of movement again with almost no pain.
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Prema Jayakumar's translation is done with a rare felicity that is pleasing to read.
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I was pleasantly surprised to see him shown in such a spiritually redeeming light.
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Please send us your gardening problems; we regret that we cannot respond individually to readers, but we will try to answer your queries in this column.
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It was one of these dishes that are a tasting menu in and of themselves, giving you the sensory pleasures of a voluptuous feast - only in tiny, manageable portions.
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This trains your brain to tune into pleasure in its many forms.
The Sun
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The thought of that virus wandering about in my hindbrain did not please me.
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He sighed with pleasure after the excellent meal.
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He wrote a letter seeking to change his plea three days later, but the judge died before acting on it.
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I am compelled to add my personal plea to the current campaign for all young adults to receive the Salk vaccine.
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There's a terrible scene where he is chained to a whipping post and flogged with sadistic pleasure by brutish Roman guards.
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See it once and it will haunt your memory with the pleasant familiarity of an old friend.
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Kimmel pleaded with the network to get this done.
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But rather than pleased, Matyc looked as sour as a Bardek citron.
A TIME OF WAR
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But please do try to abate your demands upon our patience in future.
KARA KUSH
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Why I come to you at this tyme, is to desire your honour unfainedly to delcare vnto me, whether anye daunger is ment towards my maistres this night or no that I and my poore fellowes maye take such part as shal please god to appoint.
From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
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Our work is not drudgery, but something we are to take pleasure in today.
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This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The twitters of agreement amongst her friends drowned out Raven's plea of, ‘He's not mine…‘
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The obscurity of the pleading which is, if I may so with respect to the drafter of it, exceedingly clever, because the pleading is in terms always of a duty of care to do something and it is there the elision of two very separate ideas.
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It is arguably too tight now, making the car seem unsettled on small bumps and unpleasant on larger ones.
Times, Sunday Times
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I often meet useful people at parties, so I combine business with pleasure.
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Could you be quiet please - I'm trying to concentrate and you're putting me off.
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Please accept my warmest congratulations on your engagement.
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Please print your name clearly in the top right hand corner of the page.
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Could I speak to whoever is in charge of International Sales please?
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If undelivered, please return to sender.
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After a pleasant trip, Richard and I alighted from the train at Kal.
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please send the letter express
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Overeating and drunkenness both violated social moral codes, although the latter appears to have been a much weightier transgression: intoxication is frequently listed among the serious crimes — "pleasurable living," adultery, theft — mentioned by Sahagún's informants. 47 Indigenous drinking practices also shocked Spaniards who had their own ideals of moderation when it came to alcohol consumption, a topic that we look at in Chapter 4.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Or Wulfgar, who was clever as a cageful of monkeys and who was as much a pleasure in company as Raven-or as skilled in his own way as Cedric.
Fortress Of Frost And Fire
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If she was, he was glad he'd taken the tranquilizing drugs to dampen out his responses, and to give him a more ‘pleasant’ personality.
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Please one’s eye and plague one’s heart.
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You may claim to dislike walking and it is often an unpleasant experience when confined to hard pavements, and busy, polluted streets.
How to Lower High Blood Pressure
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Britain has many admirers around the world, but who actually owns our green and pleasant land?
The Sun
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Please post this important message on your notice board so that all the students can read it.
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But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
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The city now seeks to amend the claim to plead fraudulent misrepresentation and deceit and to seek punitive damages.
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It is widely regarded as an architectural disaster, aesthetically unpleasing and out of keeping with the rest of the College.
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She denies me every pleasure
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It's so hot please turn the fan on.
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Please also rate the article as it will help us decide Hmm, I'd like to agree with Andy and say a minimum requirement would be straight up visual design but the term web designer seems to be taking on a broader meaning every …
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Ben rushed to his father, crowing with pleasure.
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The cats would be livid, showing their displeasure by sulkily shunning their food and refusing to climb into bed for a goodnight cuddle.
SANDS OF TIME
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This is a world of fabulous richness and sensuous pleasure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Have him in at once, please.
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He spent a pleasant afternoon reading .
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Also, please keep in mind that in order to conceal my identity I'm speaking through a harmonizer--in reality my voice sounds exactly like Keith David's.
Keeping it Reeled In: Hope or Delusion?
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The purpose of sport was to provide fun activities during recreation time from which people could derive plenty of pleasure, fun and enjoyment.
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He says the most sublime things without effort and he often finishes them by a turn of pleasantry which is neither misplaced nor far-fetched.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Wednesday's win was a pleasing, restorative result at a time when it was badly needed, but it would be delusive to read too much into it.
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May I come in? --Please, do.
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Animals surely greet the best parts of their lives with enjoyment: and surely actively seek out pleasurable things.
Times, Sunday Times
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Is there Boston cream pie in it, please ?
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The motion had particularly pleased Mobuto who was desperate to bring Zimbala back into world affairs.
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I feel pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chapter 1
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Please refrain from talking during the performance.
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Mentally recollecting myself, I took a deep breath and said coolly, ‘Andrew, please leave.’
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It's a guid deed we'll 'a doon this day," he remarked, pleasantly.
CHAPTER 25
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I didn't mind at all. Indeed, I was pleased.
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Please clear your books away so that I can serve dinner.
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And the idea of the wind chimes, oiled, wrapped and protected in rolls of aromatic hessian sacking, lying up in the dark of the garage loft against some future need, is pleasing enough.
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While I've been under the weather things have been growing in the fields and hedges, turning my little world back to a green and pleasant place.
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Lively, pretty, and pleasure-loving, Carie had married the saintly younger brother of the minister in her hometown of Hillsboro, West Virginia, because he was preparing to go as a missionary to China, and she wanted to give herself to God.
PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
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We do not think that something is beautiful merely to me, in the way that we might say that some things just happen to give me sensuous pleasure.
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A total of 122 animals, of eight species, have been placed in the park; all but the deer are free to move around as they please.
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took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince
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He intends to plead not guilty, according to his lawyer, Plato Cacheris, who characterized his client as emotionally distraught.
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Now, when you use the term fantasy, is this something you were doing for your personal pleasure?
CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2005
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Hurry forward there, please—there are people waiting behind you.
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Deep down, this great patriot and cricketer has taken no pleasure from one humiliation after another.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its foliage is pleasing and the seed pods are marvellous.
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By the end of their honeymoon the Haskins were only too pleased to find that Multavia did not boast a national airline.
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Would you pass the salt, please?
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He made no plea and was remanded in custody.
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Although fruits added to jellies in the way just described are chiefly for decorative effect, they do add very greatly to the pleasure of eating them; but jellied fruits, as distinguished from _fruits in jelly_, are a delicious mode of eating fruit, and where it is in abundance afford a pleasant variety.
Choice Cookery
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Much of this "pleasurist" writing is now lost to us, known only from police accounts or the bibliographical records of the famous collector of erotica H.S. Ashbee.
Undefined
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Photograph by Alexandre Bailhache Pleached hornbeam arches and chestnut pergolas create verdant alleys connecting one garden room to the next and provide shaded, secluded walks.
Paradise Regained
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Unpleasant weather conditions prevailed and the players slithering on the greasy surface was a common occurrence.
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He is also eligible for the PHSC Yearling Lounge Line, two-year-old western pleasure and three-year old reining futurities.
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He has expressed his pleasure with the leading U.S. presidential candidates 'views on immigration reform and the amnesty they support and his displeasure to "The New York Times" about what he calls immigrant bashing in America.
CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2008
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What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
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I could smell something, something dampish but not unpleasant.
Ancient, Strange, and Lovely
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Here are the addenda and corrigenda that I know of so far; please keep sending me any comments you have.
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A source close to the defense team said the no contest plea was a key element in plea bargain negotiations.
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Rarely did a meow receive high marks for both pleasant and urgent.
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Here's my answer, and please don't be offended if I read some kind of prurient interest into your query.
Um...
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Heere, sweetpea, please to tayke this platter ov shrimps piled in teh shape of teh startship Enterprise, wiff teh cocktail soss on teh brij….
I don’t do Touchy-Feely - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Beyond its antiquity, it is hard to say precisely what makes the Old Course such a pleasure.
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It was an enjoyable evening but the danger of where we seem to be going kept reasserting itself like a descant to the pleasant sound of casual conversation.
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It's not often you can eat the utensils, and the friendly, unobtrusive service saw to it we never wanted for extra injera, so we were pleased. - 1 / 2
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Her skirt was orange pleated, and barely covered the tops of her thighs.
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I maintain that this disaccording between his feelings of pleasure and pain and his rational judgment constitutes the very lowest depth of ignorance.
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“but it would be, if not more prudent, since that word displeases you, at least more natural —”
Around the World in 80 Days
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True it is, that one can scarcely call _that_ education which teaches woman everything except herself, -- _except_ the things that relate to her own peculiar womanly destiny, and, on plea of the holiness of ignorance, sends her without one word of just counsel into the temptations of life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859
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Thank you for that magnificent speech yesterday, and it is my pleasure to ask you to address the assembled gathering.
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But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
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Now I, "says the saucy piece, teasing my lips with hers," have true lovers, because I delight to give pleasure as well as to take it - especially with my English bahadur.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light
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Pleasure seeking often enslaves people in a vicious cycle of addiction…
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At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill.
David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
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The here and now is about sensual pleasure, and I don't want thoughts of love ruining that.
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Please give your name, address and daytime phone number.
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Two of my star sign cards in Thoth are Pleasure and Debauchery.
Spooky « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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It is true, however, my dear Edward, that you have lost your father; but as to this flourish of his unpleasant situation having grated upon his spirits and hurt his health — the truth is — for though it is harsh to say so now, yet it will relieve your mind from the idea of weighty responsibility — the truth then is, that Mr. Richard
Waverley
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This little package of dense black fur is fearless but unaggressive, happy to please but not a pushover, a tad stubborn but a complete lovebug.
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The people who live here are belittled with irony and satire for their neat ambitions and their careful pleasures.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fishing boats and pleasure - craft followed the great liner into the harbour.
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In the pictures his pride and pleasure are almost unbearable to look at.