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As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
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Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.
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But the people from Valley Stream had such a thick New York accent that was all around me.
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Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
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This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.
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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.
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No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.
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The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.
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We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.
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