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They the proceeded to the house where he was lying, exhibiting of course intense anxiety and solicitude.
Whenever he calls, she melts into a pool of cooing maternal solicitude.
Such solicitude extended to his four siblings, his parents and his in-laws.
Seldom has any legislative body been the subject of a solicitude more intense, or of aspirations more sincere and ardent.
The chief solicitude of the rich and of the ruler in the old civilization had been to keep up a supply of drudges.
There has always been in him a certain hovering if undependable solicitude for me, a solicitude he knows no way of expressing.
Though far distant, they have not forgotten you, but watch with anxious solicitude your movements.
The waiters approach, and their old-fashioned solicitude is not what you expect from a sports-themed restaurant.
Its object is the cosmos or some ulterior cosmic agency, construed as helpful or hurtful, colored by the worshiper's solicitude.
In this collection, the author examines the human desire for solicitude.
The other new element-at odds, it seems, with such solicitude-is achievement pressure.
The people watched the threatening events with deep solicitude.
There is certainly evidence the court will not easily shake its undue solicitude for the problems of corporations.
But this is still the government of all the people, and it should be none the less an object of their affectionate solicitude.

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