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“Has given a martyr to Christ”
The following was taken from a book.
...and it may be that on the list of martyrs will yet shine the name
of some faithful little reader of this story of St. Dorothea, on whose
feast-day ...
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How long is a 'wink'?
If I'm off to catch forty winks, how long will I be asleep?
I'm interested to know if there is a specific amount of time associated with a 'wink', or if there's no actual amount of time behind it?
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what's the phrase for “I don't want to be reliant on someone else”
I remember that there is a phrase with the word whims that goes about like this: "I don't want to be reliant on someone else"
Does anyone know what that phrase is?
