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  • Stewart follows the trail of Alight into an archaic past participle (kin to Alit), within the poetics that coordinate "sound and the medium of vision":

    Notes on 'Sounding Romantic: The Sound of Sound' 2008

  • Write Rus Alit, 7 Bonython St, Rochedale Queensland 4123, Brisbane, AUSTRALIA; phone/fax (07) 341-2371.

    13: Energy and technologies 1996

  • Rus Alit (inventor of the Rus pump; see below) has started an Appropriate Technology Newsletter.

    13: Energy and technologies 1996

  • Alit is due, no doubt, to mere inadvertence or ignorance: the form litten ( 'red-litten windows', &c.), for which the Oxford Dictionary quotes Poe, Lytton, W. Morris, and Crockett, but no old writer, is sham archaism. [back]

    Formations. 1908

  • Soviet Union, Danilenko was employed for several years by Alit.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • Padalko is the director of Alit, a Ukrainian company that produces such diamonds.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • Alit, on the other hand, was symbolically drowned and bathed on the beach.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • As part of a Pecaruan ritual, a ceremony to cleanse the village of the unholy act of a man mating with a cow, Alit was forced to "marry" the animal.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • In his defence, Alit admitted to the act of bestiality but claimed the cow, which he believed was a young and beautiful woman, had wooed him with flattering compliments.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Alit, however, according to Detik. com, passed out surrounded by locals and police, who were attempting to prevent a number of journalists from covering the spectacle.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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