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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But finally she is apparently moved by the piteous sight of the distressed supplicant and laboriously counts out 995 roubles change.
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Maximum use might be made by supplicants and petitioners of the distance between them and Rome.
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More than one lord lieutenant told me almost apologetically of the number of supplicants who sought his intervention with the democratically-chosen authorities.
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Most newly-appointed Prime Ministers are embarrassed by a plethora of well-qualified supplicants.
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Whether they came on foot or in polished Ambassadors, the stream of guests sat before Nagji like supplicants.