But in spite of statutes and proclamations, of occasional severities and of the patriotic example of Queen Elizabeth, the practice of fasting fell more and more into disuse. [Please select]
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Amid all the severities of Turkish rule for four centuries the Greeks maintained their religion, their language, and distinctive manners. [Please select]
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And this hostility Burleigh perceived as well as the Queen, which, doubtless led to severities that our age cannot pretend to justify. [Please select]
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Believe me, I shall make you suffer the severities of the law till you show where you made the discovery. [Please select]
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The great old Houses had been shaken by the severities of James I. [Please select]
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Claverhouse has left on record his aversion to severities against the peasantry; he was for prosecuting such gentry as the Dalrymples. [Please select]
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It was a time of exhaustion and reaction after the severities of the Jacobite republic. [Please select]
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