They doubled the payoffs across all outcomes, and they offered far greater rewards for a solitary confessor.

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Many of those he writes about obviously no longer see him as reporter or writer, but as confessor and friend.

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His tireless campaign for the canonization of Edward the Confessor finally succeeded.

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To this day, the Confessor's shrine in the Abbey attracts worshippers from round the world, including President George W. Bush who prayed there in 2003.

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When Neko Case toured in support of 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, she claimed that she didn't like love songs, and that she was incapable of writing one.

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She takes Father Damien's cassock and his name and, thus disguised, serves as priest and confessor to the Little No Horse reservation until her (that is his?) death.

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Mr Litchfield declares that his role was as Thyssen's confessor.

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Landing Armstrong and becoming confessor to the man who for so long looked the least likely candidate in sports to admit to doping is a massive coup for Winfrey.

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Landy in particular comes to figure as a mother-confessor.

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His claim to the English throne was based on the assertion it had been promised to him in 1051 by his distant cousin Edward the Confessor - a promise that Harold, Duke of Wessex, had sworn to uphold, he said.

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