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It is that we become as him; that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him—without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those we love best.

Pomona yielded to such beauty joined to such eloquence, and henceforward her orchards had two gardeners.

Lincoln’s proclamation had declared “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious states “are, and henceforward shall be free.”

He failed to understand that the MOU is the contract and that, for the sake of the president’s thick skull, it would henceforward be referred to as a trade agreement.

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It was the Emancipation Proclamation, decreeing “that all persons held as slaves” within the rebellious Southern states “are, and henceforward shall be, free.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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