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While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous.

From Time Magazine Archive

Forgotten now is the fact that two years ago some of Franklin Roosevelt's oldest friends were deploring the evident, consuming degree of ambition as almost indecent.

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He was always short of money, but writers were deploring that condition before Columbus set sail.

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In the craggy gorge of Puertonuevo, as he was being carried over some unusually difficult ground in a chair, his attendants were deploring the extreme ruggedness of the pass.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various

Rawleigh, on his return to his prison, while some were deploring his fate, observed that “the world itself is but a larger prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.”

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac