The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems
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7700 worked, prevailed
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7701 officers of the executive government
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7702 swore, solemnly entreated
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7703 insisted, urged
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7704 communal, general
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7705 backward
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7706 struggle
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7707 well-founded
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7708 common, widespread
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7709 considerations
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7710 prescribing, imposing
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7711 offensively
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7712 over, in preference to
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7713 frivolity, lack of serious thought
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7714 I who
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7715 acknowledged, openly declared
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7716 the Philistines’
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7717 subject of a realm, citizen
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7718 thou mine = thou under my protection
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7719 free
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7720 goes by the worse = gets the worst of it
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7721 by
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7722 outbursts/volleys of sound (words)
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7723 spare, give, yield
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7724 occasion, opportunity
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7725 acutely
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7726 lack
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7727 accident
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7728 out of their houses
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7729 attention
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7730 duty, function
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7731 up to, until
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7732 pleasant
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7733 fits not = is not suitable
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7734 separated, disunited, estranged
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7735 tricks
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7736 devices, contrivances
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7737 nets and snares
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7738 annulled
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7739 “they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken to the voice of charmers” (Psalm 58:4–5)
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7740 disdain
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7741 betray
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7742 leave
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7743 despised
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7744 finally, at last
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7745 affront, exult
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7746 displaying excessive affection/regard for one’s wife
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7747 complete, unqualified
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7748 slavery
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7749 explain, interpret
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7750 judging, criticizing
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7751 hold, reckon
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7752 inexorable, irreconcilable
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7753 pursuing, petitioning
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7754 bid (directed) to go (to leave)
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7755 affairs
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7756 the Jews
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7757 slandered
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7758 recited, sung, narrated
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7759 higher than
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7760 ties, agreements
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7761 incense, perfume
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7762 Sisera, a Canaanite hostile to the Jews, fled their pursuit; Jael, wife of Sisera’s host, drove a nail through his head as he lay sleeping: see Judges 4, 5
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7763 criminal
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7764 is discontented
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7765 evident, obvious
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7766 receive, hold
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7767 find, light upon
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7768 consult upon
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7769 the “secret” referred to in line 384, above
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7770 best man at a wedding: Samson’s first wife was subsequently married to his former best man
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7771 neither would both wives have
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7772 destined, ruinous, deadly
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7773 for that = because
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7774 limited, very little
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7775 formed, created, produced
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7776 prefer
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7777 basis, inner/essential part
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7778 implanted
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7779 serious, calm
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7780 defending
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7781 (1) sundering, separating, (2) clinging, adhering
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7782 on, along
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7783 disorderly, troubling
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7784 out of the right path
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7785 excessive fondness
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7786 corrupted
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7787 a woman
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7788 joins/unites (with her virtue)
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7789 arbitrarily/absolutely authoritative
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7790 proper
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7791 dread mixed with veneration
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7792 sever, quit
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7793 smile she = whether she smiles
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7794 frown, scowl
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7795 been involved in
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7796 hidden, secret, recondite
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7797 “the giant”
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7798 home
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7799 can guess/predict
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7800 magnificent, splendid
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7801 dress
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7802 whether
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7803 freight
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7804 mischance, luck
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7805 see Deuteronomy 3:1–11
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7806 see Numbers 13:33
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7807 a race of giants dwelling east of the River Jordan: see Deuteronomy 2:10–11
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7808 see Genesis 14:5
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7809 unnatural, amazing, vast, monstrous
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7810 tested
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7811 in camp: on a campaign
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7812 listed field: battlefield divided into lists (areas for jousting tournaments)
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7813 rumor, common talk
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7814 challenge to single combat
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7815 shackles, fetters
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7816 away from
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7817 the circumcised, the Jews
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7818 deadly
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7819 in order to be
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7820 destroyed by treachery
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7821 room (in a house)
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7822 close-banded = closely joined
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7823 get the better of
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7824 expedients, stratagems
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7825 showy
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7826 armor
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7827 body armor: rings (or plates) of metal covered with canvas, linen, or leather
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7828 upper-body armor
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7829 vant-brace: armor for forearms
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7830 leg armor
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7831 glove of leather, covered with metal plates
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7832 weaver’s beam: wooden cylinder in a loom, on which, before weaving, the warp is wound (see 1 Samuel 7:7)
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7833 i.e., seven laminations (layers) of leather
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7834 rattling, noisy
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7835 raging
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7836 stiff-spined
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7837 as long as
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7838 invoke
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7839 supported
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7840 notices, cares about
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7841 acknowledges
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7842 Samson’s
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7843 labor
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7844 coarse-growing, rank, rough
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7845 conquered, overcome
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7846 thine (your) people
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7847 indulgent, beneficent
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7848 challenge
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7849 rebel
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7850 tongue-valiant
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7851 treaty
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7852 well-known (and bad)
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7853 see Judges 14:10–19
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7854 booty, loot
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7855 indicated, proved
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7856 crafty intriguers
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7857 forced, compelled
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7858 so
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7859 engaged in, employed
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7860 secret enemies
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7861 holding no official position
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7862 treaty
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7863 gave up = surrendered
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7864 undertook, ventured, dared
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7865 solitary
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7866 familiar, well-known
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7867 i.e., revealing the secret of his strength to Dalila, who then cut off his hair
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7868 tricks, sophistries, evasions
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7869 challenger
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7870 challenges
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7871 for the third time, three times in succession
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7872 trivial, minor, unimportant
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7873 undertaking, business
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7874 little, slight, no great
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7875 exercise
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7876 examine, inspect, evaluate
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7877 comment on, carp about
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7878 Philistine god
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7879 unaccustomed
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7880 give in return, cause
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7881 front line of battle formations
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7882 offensive arrogance
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7883 is appropriate for
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7884 bewildered
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7885 huge/massy frame
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7886 large
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7887 blow (of the hand)
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7888 frame, body
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7889 peril
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7890 acts of bravado/defiance
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7891 marching
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7892 unconcerned, indifferent, uncaring
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7893 passionate
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7894 temper
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7895 common talk
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7896 publicly declare
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7897 the greatest
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7898 benefit, profit
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7899 my death
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7900 pleasing, proper
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7901 overcome, vanquish
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7902 violent, truculent
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7903 bold
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7904 zealous, assiduous
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7905 frenzied, furious
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7906 their deliverer
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7907 military stores/equipment
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7908 disdains
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7909 speed
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7910 flash
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7911 performs, fulfills, discharges
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7912 perplexed, confused, disordered
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7913 panicked, overwhelmed, astonished
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7914 act of worship, religious observance
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7915 moral strength/courage
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7916 everything
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7917 endowed
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7918 deprived, stripped
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7919 in reserve, still to come
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7920 making his way
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7921 skillfully worked
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7922 at full speed
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7923 fluent
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7924 distinguish, mark out
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7925 pageants, parades, displays
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7926 standard, degree
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7927 evidence
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7928 strengthened, cheered (often by alcohol)
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7929 clowns
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7930 actors
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7931 mimes, burlesque actors
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7932 furnish
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7933 diversion
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7934 afflict, strain, make miserable
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7935 look to
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7936 worker at low/servile/hard/distasteful tasks
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7937 frolic, exercise
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7938 enjoined, commanded
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7939 formal decision
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7940 pained
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7941 defiance
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7942 pay back
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7943 God’s favor
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7944 one pledged to abstinence
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7945 glorifying
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7946 legal
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7947 compels
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7948 saying, maxim
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7949 anger
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7950 relax rules, grant dispensations/permission
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7951 waking, stirring
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7952 incline toward, prepare
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7953 prognostication, prediction
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7954 obtain, invent, provide for
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7955 devices, usually but not necessarily mechanical
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7956 assault, attack
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7957 confine
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7958 test
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7959 technical skill
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7960 fatal
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7961 must
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7962 drag
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7963 take off, lay aside
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7964 chains
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7965 surrounded
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7966 irritate
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7967 violent
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7968 arrogant, immoderate
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7969 guarantee, promise
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7970 round about, all around
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7971 quantity, degree
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7972 my inducement = what has led/brought me
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7973 frolic, exercise
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7974 desire
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7975 share
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7976 share, participate in
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7977 tried to make use of
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7978 disinclined, opposed
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7979 liberal, magnanimous
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7980 courteous