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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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He closed his eyes, imagining the virgins, imagining away the pain in his head and groin.
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I wish I could be writing to you under better circumstances, but unfortunately those avenues have closed up.
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You expect soldiers of all ranks to understand the need to respect the chain of command, regardless of personal feelings.
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The FCC investigation recently closed its comment period on the Marriott case.
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He, with others, thinking the miss-sahib had gone to church, was smoking the hookah of gossip in a neighboring compound.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
They held the compound against repeated assaults, and lost several men in hand-to-hand fighting.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
And now I can recall that his eyes closed, and from his lips I caught a sigh, and then he rolled to the floor.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
Passing a bungalow that was blazing furiously, he saw in the compound the corpses of two women.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy