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  • It's a bargain: I accept you; I espouse your cause.†  (source)
  • But if Dorothea did choose to espouse her solitude, he felt that the resolution would well become her.†  (source)
  • The candidate espouses Republican ideals.†
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  • McCandless conveniently overlooked the fact that London himself had spent just a single winter in the North and that he'd died by his own hand on his California estate at the age of forty, a fatuous drunk, obese and pathetic, maintaining a sedentary existence that bore scant resemblance to the ideals he espoused in print.†  (source)
  • Reference other critics' opinions as a backhanded way to espouse their own.†  (source)
  • Mr. Fish gave no indication that he was even slightly troubled by his hypocrisy on this issue—for surely old Sagamore would roll over in his grave to hear his former master espousing canine restraints of any kind; Sagamore had run free, to the end.†  (source)
  • It takes the stance of pure historical idealism and espouses a doomsday theory.†  (source)
  • And I hear that thou threatenest, as they tell me, to wreak some deed of vengeance on the betrother, and the espouser and the espoused; against this then, before I suffer, will I guard.†  (source)
  • has succumbed irrevocably to the corruptions of his class—and now poses a threat to the very ideals he once espoused.†  (source)
  • How can you of all people espouse an idea like that?†  (source)
  • The fights ceased after two days as the Communicators walked up and down the school espousing calm.†  (source)
  • If the power of sinning more Were first concluded in thee, ere thou knew'st That kindly grief, which re-espouses us To God, how hither art thou come so soon?†  (source)
  • And it was the first time in her life that she had actively espoused a Principle.†  (source)
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