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To agitate in its literal use is nearly the same as to shake, tho we speak of the sea as agitated when we could not say it is shaken; the Latin agitate is preferred in scientific or technical use to the Saxon shake, and especially as applied to the action of mechanical contrivances; in the metaphorical use agitate is more transitory and superficial, shake more fundamental and enduring; a person's feelings are agitated by distressing news; his courage, his faith, his credit, or his testimony is shaken.
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I don't mind telling you the story, but I can't argue.
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We must not confuse the peoples with their governments; especially not the English people with its government.
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We can disagree with one who misleads himself in an intention which he believes laudable, and at the same time esteem him.
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At one time I even thought I saw her foot move under the whiteness of the coverings, and slightly disarrange the long straight folds of the winding-sheet.
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It probably did much to disorganize social life and prepare the way for the troubles that followed the accession of Commodus.
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26:029:012 And I will make the land of Egypt desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate, and her cities among the cities that are laid waste shall be desolate forty years: and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and will disperse them through the countries.
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I won't give him a divorce.
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To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger, which may estrange you from close companions.
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Two nights before the fight I had a second dream in which a favorite horse was running, but suddenly, just before the judge’s stand was passed, a hitherto unobserved little black horse ran ahead and the crowd shouted in my ears, `Fitzsimmons wins!’ ”
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The originator of a crime often instigates or incites others to abet him in it, or one may instigate or incite others to a crime in the commission of which he himself takes no active part.
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<3> *glory Wherefore in laud, as I best can or may Of thee, and of the white lily flow’rWhich that thee bare, and is a maid alway, To tell a story I will do my labour;Not that I may increase her honour,For she herselven is honour and rootOf bounte, next her son, and soules’ boot.
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Are you trying to irritate me, or what?”
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Especially used in circumstances where spooling the data copes with a mismatch between speeds in two devices or pieces of software.
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Nice mixup.
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She had not the heart to refuse her splendid, successful boy anything, and answered warmly... "I'll come, Teddy, rain or shine, and march before you, playing 'Hail the conquering hero comes' on a jew's-harp."
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The ---- of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
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There is imperfect Knowledge: that which sees The separate existences apart, And, being separated, holds them real.
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She did not mention this meeting at home (though she discovered that, thanks to the upset, her new dress was much damaged by the rivulets of dressing that meandered down the skirt), but went through with the preparations which now seemed more irksome than before, and at twelve o'clock all was ready again.