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  • I don't call Advena fitted to be a wife, and last of all a minister's.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • "Advena," he whispered, out of the sudden clamour in his mind, "she can't be -- she isn't -- nothing has happened to her?"

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Ducking under a brilliant mauve bougainvillea, Sharon Advena pushed open the unlocked door with her patterned sarong and turned to unload the storage boxes on the tile floor.

    Meeting the bony woman 2007

  • Ducking under a brilliant mauve bougainvillea, Sharon Advena pushed open the unlocked door with her patterned sarong and turned to unload the storage boxes on the tile floor.

    Meeting the bony woman 2007

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors who visited Pelindaba and the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR) Advena nuclear facility near Pretoria in 1990 and 1991 were tricked into believing that South Africa's nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime.

    Was Diana's Death a Smokescreen? 2008

  • A spokesman claiming to represent 16 disgruntled scientists, retrenched from nuclear arms parastatal Advena last April, admitted to the Sunday Times that the threat amounted to blackmail.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "Dr Drummond can't stand Liscombe," said Alec, as they all laughed a little at the Doctor's foible, all except Advena, who laughed a great deal.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • And anybody can see with half an eye that Advena likes him.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Whatever they expected, therefore, it was not Advena.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • "No," said Advena, rebelliously; and indeed he had been a trifle didactic to her grievance.

    The Imperialist Sara Jeannette Duncan

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