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I'm sorry, probably not the sort of thing you want to hear from your prospective lawyer, heh?† (source)
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I looked around the plane at the faces of my fellow prospective paratroopers.† (source)
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Hammond also concealed from prospective investors the fact that the elephant's behavior had changed substantially in the process of miniaturization.† (source)
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As the plan took shape, the prospective escapees walked as much as possible, strengthening their legs.† (source)
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Gracious and most golden one, he says — the beggar's standard address to a prospective benefactor — rumour of your extreme beauty has brought me here, though simply by being here my life is forfeit.† (source)
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People hawking time-shares are the most insidious, luring their prospective victims with far more than the usual free T-shirt or can opener.† (source)
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Parents of prospective students pay for tours, but you're doing it for free.† (source)
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Yes, as before I had prospectively assumed that Bartleby would depart, so now I might retrospectively assume that departed he was.† (source)
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They speak of Alhazen and Vitellon,<16> And Aristotle, that wrote in their lives Of quainte* mirrors, and of prospectives, *curious As knowe they that have their bookes heard.† (source)
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She also told me that prospective parents always pick the blond kids first.† (source)
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When I had taken this commission on myself prospectively, Mr. Barkis relapsed into perfect silence; and I, feeling quite worn out by all that had happened lately, lay down on a sack in the cart and fell asleep.† (source)
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Before prospective buyers could be allowed inside, though, the place had to be cleaned out.† (source)
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in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.† (source)
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In Albert Jefferson's case, the prosecutor had organized the list of prospective jurors summoned to court into four groups of roughly twenty-five people each, identified as "strong,"† (source)
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And Mr. Quinion, calling in Tipp the carman, who was a married man, and had a room to let, quartered me prospectively on him — by our mutual consent, as he had every reason to think; for I said nothing, though my resolution was now taken.† (source)
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Shortly before completing the renovation, Joe hosted a gala dinner-dance in the building as a preview party for prospective buyers.† (source)
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