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  • It was also said that they had a pact with the devil, and that they kidnapped children and, taking them away to their mysterious camps, made them their slaves.  (source)
  • I was on the verge of blurting out the awful truth about the bus and the men in the night, but then I remembered the pact Stacey had made us all swear to when I had told him, Christopher-John, and Little Man about the caravan and I said instead, "No, ma'am," and began to churn again.  (source)
  • I wanted to answer her prayer—I was barely more than ten miles from the mountain—but I knew what unspoken pact I would be making as I walked through that door.  (source)
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  • And suddenly we'll look around and discover that all the old alliances are gone, dead and gone, except one, the Warsaw Pact.  (source)
    Pact = agreement
  • Let them form blocs and alliances and mutual assistance pacts and guarantees of neutrality.  (source)
    pacts = agreements between parties
  • Thomas got to his feet anyway, determined to defend the pact he'd made.  (source)
    pact = agreement
  • I was named after Mary Magdalene, who was nearly killed from love: "So infected with deliria and in violation of the pacts of society, she fell in love with men who would not have her or could not keep her."†  (source)
    pacts = agreements between parties
  • So, we just made a pact that we wouldn't tell her unless we found out that Craig made it sound like "nothing big," and Sam was ready to forgive him.  (source)
    pact = agreement
  • She tried not to panic, but that pot of boiling water, and the otherwise eerie quiet of the house, arranged itself in a crooked way in her mind, and very suddenly she was thinking of robberies, or suicide pacts, or kidnappings.†  (source)
    pacts = agreements between parties
  • Ever since we read The Fall of the House of Usher, we had made a pact that neither of us would allow the other to be buried without making "absolutely, positively sure" (his favorite phrase) that the person was dead.  (source)
    pact = agreement
  • Sometimes, when we're very drunk, we make pacts that if we're not somewhere more exciting in three months, we'll both leave our jobs.†  (source)
    pacts = agreements between parties
  • Now I will kill you instead of him as our pact was and so the Deep Magic will be appeased.  (source)
    pact = agreement
  • Very late up the literary clock one named Locomotives and Trains, The Mystery of Sleep, Between Midnight and Dawn, The Witches' Sabbath, and Pacts With Demons.†  (source)
    Pacts = agreements between parties
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