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Plaintively, he begged them to let him go on to his farm, but the doctors refused.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake�they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars.

From Time Magazine Archive

Plaintively the caddy says: "It don't seem right."

From Time Magazine Archive

Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government offices seem to be full of merely curious visitors," shooed out as many as possible.

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Towards its chorded closing bar Plaintively, thinly, waned the hymn, Yet lingered, like the notes afar    Of banded seraphim.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas