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"He took what was dearest to me; he took my son, my friend, my prince," Ms. Ibn Ziaten said.
Right from these early years, however, it was clear that the music of Handel and Mozart was dearest to him: he wrote about it passionately, with wit and perception, in the elegant and unpretentious prose that characterised all his writings.
My fellow Pythons used to be quite tactical, both in terms of their own contributions and their responses to those of others, for instance not starting with the material that was dearest to them, and/or allotting their laughter as much as a reflection of current alliances as the virtues of the material itself.
Nurmi had won five gold medals in five events, but he left the Games embittered as the Finnish officials had allocated races between their star runners and prevented him from defending his title in the 10,000 m, the distance that was dearest to him.
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