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bigamy
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    In my mind, I was not wedded to the island, nor would I be guilty of bigamy if I went home to Barbara each night.†  (source)
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    He often told her that he was going to tell a policeman and have Sissy arrested for bigamy.†  (source)
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    Henry who, before it was too late, might have reacted to the discovery exactly as Sutpen did, as a jealous brother might have been expected to react, since who knows but what it was not the fact of the mistress and child, the possible bigamy, to which Henry gave the lie, but to the fact that it was his father who told him, his father who anticipated him, the father who is the natural enemy of any son and son-in-law of whom the mother is the ally, just as after the wedding the father will be the ally of the actual son-in-law who has for mortal foe the mother of his wife.†  (source)
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    The president of the Florida Flying Machine Company is in jail for bigamy.†  (source)
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    Told me his dad was a genius, a NASA rocket scientist, but he'd been a bigamist at one time, and that kind of went against Alex's grain.†  (source)
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    Bigamists.†  (source)
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    Bigamy lightened the horizon of his shadowy thoughts for a moment.†  (source)
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    Father the Baptist Bigamist.†  (source)
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    This jail was a Noah's ark of the city's crime—there were murderers, "hold-up men" and burglars, embezzlers, counterfeiters and forgers, bigamists, "shoplifters,"†  (source)
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    We're living in bigamy.†  (source)
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    — I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has outmanoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me, — perhaps the last.†  (source)
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    In fact, as time passed and Henry became accustomed to the idea of that ceremony which was still no marriage, that may have been the trouble with Henry—not the two ceremonies but the two women; not the fact that Bon's intention was to commit bigamy but that it was apparently to make his (Henry's) sister a sort of junior partner in a harem.†  (source)
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    Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone, even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.†  (source)
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