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The world and all its horrors and complications fell away, and there was only him, his body, long and lean against mine, his mouth over mine, laying claim to it like he had laid claim to my body and my life
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While he didn’t want much, if anything, of what his wife had to offer, neither did Siegel want anyone else laying claim to “his property”
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laying claim to historical authority, while the pages of
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Ned Land tested the soil with his foot, as if he were laying claim to it
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He scaled an overhanging rock that ended in a small promontory and there, mute and motionless, with crossed arms and blazing eyes, he seemed to be laying claim to these southernmost regions
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Whereas, It is represented, that Great Britain has seized sundry persons fighting under the American flag, laying claims to them alike incompatible with justice and the rights of the United States as an independent nation: