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At that time the same people who were wont to deny it, would be trembling with fear and seeing with awe struck eyes all that they thought was impossible.
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Governments, and their rusted on supporters, are wont to whine about the senate.
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Over time and with the growing authority of the abbot, the religious houses were wont to build their own house, where the abbot might receive important guests.
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This is not because he is wont to dress in leathers.
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It states that a cleric one day followed him with an evil intention to a retired chapel, where the saint was wont to pray.
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Though on the surface, one is wont to empathise with him as he commendably did some research with a government officer before penning his comments.
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They are wont to pursue wealth, luxury and wantonness.
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He was a strong supporter of overseas colonisation he was wont to say that, with so many children, he could not be otherwise.
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The outside world was wont to regard him as a mystic; and the mystical, or sacramental, view of life enters, it is true, very largely into his teaching.
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It was not his wont to talk at length, nor was he, unless exceptionally interested, a good listener.
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