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She sipped her tea, then changed the subject: the families up and down South Beach, she said, were thought of by folks in Amity Harbor as self-styled aristocrats and malcontents, seclusion seekers and eccentrics—Ishmael's family included.† (source)
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Every country has some small group of malcontents who aren't satisfied with the balance of power.† (source)
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They are a unit of malcontents, a troop of social misfits.† (source)
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What if someone like Caesar or a Cromwell had led the malcontents?† (source)
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The malingerers, the malcontents— they always rally around a rebel.† (source)
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William Crook is a straightforward cop, not one to search for conspiracies or malcontents where none exist.† (source)
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I have witnessed him shake fifteen hundred hands in the space of a city block, Q & A for five hours with an assembly of greedy malcontents, kneel whole mornings in Reverend Cho's cavernous church praying for a rookie cop shot up in Hunt's Point.† (source)
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You have heard some malcontent perpetrating slander.... Have I not been—† (source)
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It was during the introspective, wood-burning days of winter, when a kind of malcontented lethargy gripped us, that I found the letter that would provide the means to the grandest, most improbable voyage of all.† (source)
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I don't know what they wanna stay up here all October for," she said malcontentedly, lowering her cup.† (source)
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The rooks, swinging in their lofty houses in the elm-tree avenue, seem to discuss the question of the occupancy of the carriage as it passes underneath, some agreeing that Sir Leicester and my Lady are come down, some arguing with malcontents who won't admit it, now all consenting to consider the question disposed of, now all breaking out again in violent debate, incited by one obstinate and drowsy bird who will persist in putting in a last contradictory croak.† (source)
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His timidity and evident "newness" had complicated effects on the malcontent.† (source)
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It is probable, in fact, that the Convention of 1831 exercised a very great influence upon the minds of the malcontents, and prepared them for the open revolt against the commercial laws of the Union which took place in 1832.† (source)
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And before you start spreading the poison of imperial tedium, my malcontent citizen, you're going to see that God and man have not deserted you and that medical authority has an eye on you, an unblinking eye, my good man, that its one ceaseless concern is your diversion.† (source)
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Spaniards, Englishmen, and Italian malcontents, adventurers of all nations, and soldiers of fortune of every sect, flocked at the first summons under the standard of the Protestants, and organized themselves like a vast association, whose branches diverged freely over all parts of Europe.† (source)
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For a change, one could talk to the station agent; but he was another malcontent; spent all his spare time writing letters to officials requesting a transfer.† (source)
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