The lawsuit doesn't read nearly as well as the story, which laid bare the life of an NHL enforcer for all to see.

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In return, the owners provided the bare basics of life to their slaves and employees.

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Another was Maria Monk's "Awful Disclosures, " a sensational penny-dreadful which pretended to lay bare the secrets of the lurid life behind the walls of a 19th century convent.

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We have done a short sale on our home, cut our budgets back to bare minimum, have relinquished all luxuries in our life but, yet still get up each day with the hope of something better.

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Through the bare windows the sun shone, lighting up the floors as if her life were going backward and she was again a young bride in a new-built unfurnished manse and with a somewhat frightening husband twice her age.

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In a bid to escape everyday life, they braved fierce storms and climbed up the cliffs with their bare hands.

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Mr Fisher argues that, as a measure of damage, slaves' lost wages are only a bare minimum, since they do not reflect the higher price a person would require freely to choose a life of bondage.

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