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Frances abandoned her whole soul to the suppressed melody of the music, though the language of the song expressed a meaning, which, united with certain events of that and the preceding day, left a sensation of uneasiness in the bosom of the warm-hearted girl, to which she had hitherto been a stranger.

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Why were more people killed last month than in any preceding month of this conflict?

Rather than preceding the insurgency, the Taliban followed the troop deployment, and as far as I'm concerned, the troop deployment caused their return.

And the real tragedy was, if you look through her records, she had been seen in four or five other health care institutions in the preceding two years.

This is the percent of the population with any mental illness in the preceding year.

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