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abet
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    And for her to think that you might abet her, when she knows that you yourself have had to make your own penances twice!†  (source)
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    So, when I had pledged myself to comfort and abet Herbert in the affair of his heart by all practicable and impracticable means, and when Herbert had told me that his affianced already knew me by reputation and that I should be presented to her, and when we had warmly shaken hands upon our mutual confidence, we blew out our candles, made up our fire, locked our door, and issued forth in quest of Mr. Wopsle and Denmark.†  (source)
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    Oh yes, there were plenty to aid and abet him; even he could not have held a horse race without someone to race against.†  (source)
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    Of "natural causes" even, if abetted by unhealthy conditions, malnutrition, and the pitiless constellation of negligence.†  (source)
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    Not telling her is tantamount to aiding and abetting the enemy.†  (source)
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    She had no right to dash away from your party, and Miss Derek had no right to abet her.†  (source)
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    ...We have guarded their homes and property long enough, now is the time for action....The only way to put down this rebellion is to hurt the instigators and abettors of it.†  (source)
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    She reads entirely too much—" this to Marilla as the little girls went out—"and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her.†  (source)
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    And you think that to save such villains as you I will become an abettor of their plot, an accomplice in their crimes?†  (source)
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    Dragged down by constant pain and by infections that were abetted by his shortage of white cells, he limped through his days, pushing himself beyond his strength.†  (source)
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    The man who could not be discourteous to a ground-squirrel had sat in the courthouse abetting the cause of grubby-minded little men.†  (source)
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    Rhadamanthus had been a member of a dueling fraternity, but they could not possibly approach the head of the sanatorium and ask him to abet them in an illegal act, particularly since patients were involved.†  (source)
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    One of the nastiest abettors of the hateful dogma purveyed below the Mason-Dixon line, he seemed to me also—while I brooded over the haggard figure in a baggy white Palm Beach suit, ravaged like one already seized by death's hand even as he slouched past a frayed palmtree into the New Orleans clinic—one of its chief and most wretched victims, and the faintest breath of regret accompanied my murmured farewell.†  (source)
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