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  • 'I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character ...he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.'†  (source)
  • "No thank you," Rahel said, hoping that if she could somehow effect her own punishment, Ammu would rescind hers.†  (source)
  • I assured him I was naturally hard — very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.†  (source)
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  • It did not matter to Sol that the command had been rescinded at the last moment.†  (source)
  • I require but one thing to rescind my ban:' Lorren said.†  (source)
  • "Mr. Neal:' Judge Glass said, "your little outburst caused me to briefly consider rescinding your plea agreement and forcing you to go to trial.†  (source)
  • The order was rescinded thirty days after you turned eighteen.†  (source)
  • They couldn't grant or rescind privileges, help us get rid of smelly roommates, stop aides from pestering us.†  (source)
  • One time, agents took him to a room and grilled him, trying, he thought, to make him angry, trying, he imagined, to create a pretext for rescinding his green card.†  (source)
  • My father was running right and left, exhausted, consoling friends, checking with the Jewish Council just in case the order had been rescinded.†  (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart went away from General Dreedle with a gulp and kicked the chaplain out of the officers' club, and it was exactly the way it almost was two months later after the chaplain had tried to persuade Colonel Cathcart to rescind his order increasing the number of missions to sixty and had failed abysmally in that endeavor too, and the chaplain was ready now to capitulate to despair entirely but was restrained by the memory of his wife, whom he loved and missed so pathetically with such sensual and exalted ardor, and by the lifelong trust he had placed in the wisdom and justice of an immortal, omnipotent, omniscient, humane, universal, anthropomorphic, English-speaking, Anglo-Saxon,†  (source)
  • Now I felt myself rescinding, emptying of all personality, emotion, and preferences, so that he would know as little of me as possible.†  (source)
  • The decree was never rescinded, and since everyone ate and bought bread daily throughout the five years of occupation, millions of death sentences must have been incurred in the General Government area of German-ruled Polish territory for this offence alone.†  (source)
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