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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Some cites are sure to be typos but the sudden surprise attack which raid supplies is temptingly eggcornish, while the acorn suggests little more than punishing someone with a painfully tight hairdo.
He bullied one official to death and upraided other for their lack of wit and competence.
Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they …
He chose the wrong spot to commit an offence and then was very unhappy to be upraided by police, which resulted in him being arrested.
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