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  • As the plan took shape, the prospective escapees walked as much as possible, strengthening their legs.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Yes, as before I had prospectively assumed that Bartleby would depart, so now I might retrospectively assume that departed he was.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • She also told me that prospective parents always pick the blond kids first.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • Before prospective buyers could be allowed inside, though, the place had to be cleaned out.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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