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No references found	The Firm to which I was brutally consigned, as if I was a bale of merchandise, has worn out my patience by a series of petty insults; and I have felt compelled, from motives of self-respect, to withdraw my services, which were undervalued from the first. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context "Then, brother," I replied, "you can return to your China, post haste or at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit for so long a travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without money, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges and rectorships, sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I can wish for. Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context ), minister and kinsman of a petty kinglet under the Chou dynasty, whose `Li Sao', literally translated `Falling into Trouble', is partly autobiography and partly imagination. A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context	Petrus Brovka Petrus Jacobus Joubert Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers Petrusenko, Oksana Petrusenko, Oksana Andreevna Petrushevskii, Dmitrii Petrushevskii, Dmitrii Moiseevich Petrushevskii, Fedor Fomich Petrushevskii, Ilia Petrushevskii, Ilia Pavlovich Petrushevskii, Vasilii Fomich Petrushka Petsamo Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation of 1944 PETSCII Pettenkofer, Max Von Petter Dass Petterson-Nansen water bottle petticoat insulator Petticoat Junction Pettigrew State Park Pettigrew, Richard Franklin Pettis County Pettit truss Pettit, Bob petty petty cash Petty, Richard Petty, Sir William Petty, William Petukhov, Boris Petukhov, Boris Sergeevich Petukhova, Kseniia Petukhova, Kseniia Kupriianovna Petukhovo Petunia Petushki Petushkova, Elena Petushkova, Elena Vladimirovna petzite Petzoldt, Josef Petzval condition Petzval curvature Petzval lens Petzval sum Petzval surface Peulthai Peuple, Le peuroseite Peutinger, Konrad Pevchii Diak	pettiness pettiness petting petting petting petting petting zoo petting zoos pettis Pettis County Pettis County, Missouri Pettis County, MO pettish pettish pettishly pettishly pettishness pettishness pettiskirt pettislip Pettit National Ice Center Pettit truss Pettit, Bob pettitoes Petto Petts Wood Cricket Club Petts Wood Methodist Church Petts Wood Operatic Society PETTT Pettus Organic Group petty petty apartheid Petty average Petty averages Petty bag Petty bourgeois Petty bourgeois Petty bourgeoise Petty bourgeoise petty bourgeoisie petty bourgeoisie petty cash petty cash petty cash petty cash petty cash book Petty Cash Fund Petty Cash Funds Petty constable Petty crime Petty crime Petty crime Petty crime petty criticism petty detail petty dishonesty petty juror petty jury petty jury petty jury petty larceny

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The Firm to which I was brutally consigned, as if I was a bale of merchandise, has worn out my patience by a series of petty insults; and I have felt compelled, from motives of self-respect, to withdraw my services, which were undervalued from the first.

No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context

"Then, brother," I replied, "you can return to your China, post haste or at whatever haste you are bound to go, as I am not fit for so long a travel and, besides being ill, I am very much without money, while Emperor for Emperor and Monarch for Monarch, I have at Naples the great Count of Lemos, who, without so many petty titles of colleges and rectorships, sustains me, protects me and does me more favour than I can wish for.

Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context

), minister and kinsman of a petty kinglet under the Chou dynasty, whose `Li Sao', literally translated `Falling into Trouble', is partly autobiography and partly imagination.

A Lute of Jade by Cranmer-Byng, L. View in context

Petrus Brovka

Petrus Jacobus Joubert

Petrus Josephus Hubertus Cuypers

Petrusenko, Oksana

Petrusenko, Oksana Andreevna

Petrushevskii, Dmitrii

Petrushevskii, Dmitrii Moiseevich

Petrushevskii, Fedor Fomich

Petrushevskii, Ilia

Petrushevskii, Ilia Pavlovich

Petrushevskii, Vasilii Fomich