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"ref": "2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2016-11-15:",
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"text": "1651 (Latin edition 1642), Thomas Hobbes, De Cive (Latin title) Philosophicall Rudiments Concerning Government and Society (English),\nHey who lesse seriously consider the force of words, doe sometimes confound Law with Counsell, sometimes with Covenant, sometimes with Right. They confound Law with Counsell, who think, that it is the duty of Monarchs not onely to give ear to their Counsellours, but also to obey them, as though it were in vaine to take Counsell, unlesse it were also followed."
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"ref": "1983, Carol M. Anderson, Susan Stewart, Mastering Resistance: A Practical Guide to Family Therapy:",
"text": "While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his \"Latin American macho attitude.\" To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Corinthians 1:27:",
"text": "But God hath choſen the fooliſh things of the woꝛld, to confound the wiſe: and God hath choſen the weake things of the woꝛld, to confound the things which are mighty:",
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"ref": "a. 1745, unknown author, “God Save the King”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 15, page 552:",
"text": "O Lord our God ariſe, / Scatter his enemies, / And make them fall: / Confound their politics, / Fruſtrate their knaviſh tricks, / On him our hopes we fix, / O ſave us all.",
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"text": "1848 February 12, John Mitchel, The United Irishman, Letter to Lord Clarendon,\nI am now, in order the better to confound your politics, going to give you a true account of the means we intend to use, and of the rules, signs, and pass-words of our new United Irish Society Lodge A. 1.—They are so simple that you will never believe them."
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"ref": "1882, Arthur Conan Doyle, “My Friend the Murderer”, in The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories:",
"text": "\"Number 43 is no better, Doctor,\" said the head-warder, in a slightly reproachful accent, looking in round the corner of my door.\n\"Confound 43!\" I responded from behind the pages of the Australian Sketcher.",
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"ref": "[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 107:",
"text": "\"Confound these bearing reins!\" he said to himself; \"I thought we should have some mischief soon—master will be sorely vexed;[…]\"",
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