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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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Not long after he moved, the mail carrier got embroiled in a battle with the Middletown government over the flock of chickens that he kept in his yard.† (source)
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And if you get embroiled in it and you're seen to be helping a man kill himself, then you could end up in all sorts of trouble.† (source)
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As for being "over a barrel"—if anyone gave off the aroma of being embroiled in some sort of ongoing and ill-defined trouble, it was Platt.† (source)
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On top of that, Adler had become embroiled in a bitter fight locally over his plan to build new Victorian-style housing for blacks in downtown Savannah.† (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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And yet still, so long after the founding of this democracy, every day, our elected leaders still find themselves embroiled in some scandal or another, usually involving them doing something they shouldn't be doing.† (source)
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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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As a result of his embroilment in the petition campaign, he was expelled from the university.† (source)
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When stung with hunger she embroils the flood, The sea-dog and the dolphin are her food; She makes the huge leviathan her prey, And all the monsters of the watery way; The swiftest racer of the azure plain Here fills her sails, and spreads her oars in vain; Fell Scylla rises, in her fury roars, At once six mouths expands, at once six men devours.† (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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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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Nick and I are currently embroiled in what I have taken to calling (to myself) the Cuckoo Clock Conundrum.† (source)
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LE BRET: But why embroil yourself?† (source)
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The threat of embroilment in the European war continued, America at the "precipice," as Adams said, and still there was no word from John Jay in London.† (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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