pained

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"We are not implying any criticism or any suggestion that he isn't working hard enough," a P.A.C. spokesman ex plained.

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Lighting it and holding it in front of him, he ex plained, 'It's Easter; the resurrection of the Greek people.'

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One version of the plan came from South Carolina's Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn, who said last week that he heard it ex plained by MacArthur in 1956.

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The legacy was further ex plained by Mario to Columnist Earl Wilson: "God gave me my voice as a gift� and I am only the keeper of the voice."

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It plained of its gaping wounds, its inward bleeding, its riven chords. 

From Jane Eyre by Townsend, F. H.