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  • Just for the record, Wine Enthusiast is doing just fine.

    Slate: how the Internet has democratized wine drinking | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009

  • Oh, as if "Star Wars Enthusiast" is somehow more acceptable than "fanboy".

    The Confusion 2004

  • A pilgrim -- the "Enthusiast" -- said: "See that tall, graceful girl! look at the Madonna-like beauty of her countenance!"

    The Innocents Abroad — Volume 06 Mark Twain 1872

  • A pilgrim -- the "Enthusiast" -- said: "See that tall, graceful girl! look at the Madonna-like beauty of her countenance!"

    The Innocents Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • So if you majority of people with an interest in wild birds do not consider themselves birders, perhaps we need to coin another term to capture their interest, perhaps something like "wild bird enthusiasts" or "backyard bird enthusiasts" after the Game Bird Journal: an Online Magazine Devoted to the Game Bird Enthusiast, which is sort of the niche that magazines like Birds & Blooms and Bird Watcher's Digest aim to reach.

    Birding and Other Outdoor Activities As Google Search Terms John L. Trapp 2006

  • The idea was to listen to a new band called Enthusiast (formerly Ten Cent Pistol minus Lee Ivy but with a new sound) and then get back to the Pub to see an out-of-town act called Indigenous, who was supposed to be really good.

    Times Record News Stories 2010

  • Scott's a Star Wars 'Enthusiast', which is almost there.

    Do they have no shame??? 2003

  • Warton's "Enthusiast," we find Blacklock declaring, with general acceptance, that "poetical genius depends entirely on the quickness of moral feeling," and that not to "feel poetry" was the result of having

    Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

  • Let not the reader brand us, "Enthusiast," nor yet, "Flatterer," when we proclaim an honest conviction -- not blind to the many faults of these women, yet are they as noble a band as ever graced the Church.

    An Apology for African Methodism Benjamin Tucker 1867

  • The author of the "Enthusiast" has, in that story, bequeathed to the world a striking and most melancholy picture of the ceaseless conflict, the insatiable thirst for what is unattainable, and the final wretchedness necessarily attendant upon the ungoverned ambition of superior intellect, when associated with the weakness, natural dependence, and susceptibility of woman.

    Mrs. Fletcher, Late Miss Jewsbury. 1838

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