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  • But this didn't happen—not for us and not for any of those other claimants to the estate.†  (source)
  • The prosecution rested, as did the defense and the claimants.†  (source)
  • So what do I want with all this— imaginary capital, phony claimants, malice, envy?†  (source)
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  • He did not know that Clyde Toomey had bought the land again from the Mexican claimants.†  (source)
  • She'd nodded stiffly, her face impassive, and the captain of her guard had raised his crossbow and shot the claimant for her hand through the heart.†  (source)
  • That night the Captain dined at his table and the circle was complete, for claimants came to the chairs on the Bishop's right, two Japanese who expressed deep interest in his projects for world-brotherhood.†  (source)
  • And this has brought us to a world where the more a man produces, the closer he comes to the loss of all his rights, until, if his ability is great enough, he becomes a rightless creature delivered as prey to any claimant-while in order to be placed above rights, above principles, above morality, placed where anything is permitted to him, even plunder and murder, all a man has to do is to be in need.†  (source)
  • The suite in which Devereux Warren was gracefully weakening and sinking was of the same size as that of the Señor Pardo y Cuidad Real—throughout this hotel there were many chambers wherein rich ruins, fugitives from justice, claimants to the thrones of mediatized principalities, lived on the derivatives of opium or barbitol listening eternally as to an inescapable radio, to the coarse melodies of old sins.†  (source)
  • If a marriageable son belonged to the family where she boarded a proposal was automatic; if there was more than one claimant, vicious fights occurred over her hand.†  (source)
  • There were two claimants to the throne, unfortunately, who were in the palace now and suspected what had happened, yet they made no trouble, because religion is a living force to the Hindus, and can at certain moments fling down everything that is petty and temporary in their natures.†  (source)
  • There is no other claimant, I presume?†  (source)
  • While the remains of Jim Hall were discovered on a dozen mountain-sides by greedy claimants for bloodmoney.†  (source)
  • "Another new claimant of the Crown!" cried the officer.†  (source)
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