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I'd sworn to the gods from the king's prison that I wasn't going to embroil myself in any more stupid plans.† (source)
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'If I were going to remain here, I might think it worth my while to embroil myself.† (source)
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This was a great affront to the king's army, and a great inconvenience to the cardinal, who had no longer, it is true, to embroil Louis XIII with Anne of Austria—for that affair was over—but he had to adjust matters for M. de Bassompierre, who was embroiled with the Duc d'Angouleme.† (source)
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LE BRET: But why embroil yourself?† (source)
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But the township serves as a centre for the desire of public esteem, the want of exciting interests, and the taste for authority and popularity, in the midst of the ordinary relations of life; and the passions which commonly embroil society change their character when they find a vent so near the domestic hearth and the family circle.† (source)
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Venerable trapper, our communications have a recent origin, or thy interrogatory might have a tendency to embroil us in angry disputation.† (source)
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His family became embroiled in a dispute with their cousins over a small plot of forest.† (source)
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Why should we be quick to embroil ourselves as adversaries of the other, being far more powerful than they are?† (source)
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As a result of his embroilment in the petition campaign, he was expelled from the university.† (source)
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The citizens of foreign nations might also suffer, discrediting and embroiling the Union by the indiscretion of a single State could discredit the entire Union.† (source)
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To whom these most adhere He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns: next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.† (source)
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Amata's breast the Fury thus invades, And fires with rage, amid the sylvan shades; Then, when she found her venom spread so far, The royal house embroil'd in civil war, Rais'd on her dusky wings, she cleaves the skies, And seeks the palace where young Turnus lies.† (source)
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Piggy, finding himself uncomfortably embroiled, slid the conch to Ralph's knees and sat down.† (source)
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They told me there were eight of them assembled at a tavern just by; that they were determin'd to come and vote with us if there should be occasion, which they hop'd would not be the case, and desir'd we would not call for their assistance if we could do without it, as their voting for such a measure might embroil them with their elders and friends.† (source)
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Booth's bullet, indeed, saved him from something worse than embroilment with the radicals over Reconstruc-tion.† (source)
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Thus, on the one hand, it is extremely difficult in democratic ages to draw nations into hostilities; but on the other hand, it is almost impossible that any two of them should go to war without embroiling the rest.† (source)
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