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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A word adopted from the German by many English and American petrographers to designate a round or lenticular nodule, either a single mineral particle or an aggregate, often found in gneissic or schistose rocks, which in comparison with the inclosing finer-grained material produces an appearance compared to that of an eye. The term eye is less extensively used in this sense.
- noun In old astronomy: Properly, the apogee of a planet, or the longitude of the apogee. Either apsis of the orbit. The culmination or point of culmination.
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Cuando cursé mis doce años de estudios en la escuela pública nunca conocí a ninguna de estas autoras puertorriqueñas, tampoco conocí a escritores hispanoamericanos que estaban en todo su auge como Gabriel García Márquez, el propio Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Luisa Valenzuela, la lista es inmensa.
Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: Debate on Censorship 2009
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É um relato, breve, das condicionantes políticas, económicas e militares que influenciaram o papel de Portugal nos anos do auge napoelónico.
1801 Artur 2008
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I propo… prop auge…sug.. tink we shud hab a buffeh wit wittl disposabible tewfbrushes in da bafrums!
4 out of 5 dentists recommend - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Merecia sim o declínio no cárcere, envelhencendo como uma sombra do que foi, uma patética amostra de humanidade que no auge do seu poder se arrogava do direito de vida ou morte sobre os seus súbditos mas que despojado do poder mostra ser uma triste amostra de homem.
Hoje criminosos... Artur 2006
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Cette eau tombe en une auge creus閑 dans la roche du chateau; de l� elle se porte vers la ville et en parcourt les rues dans un canal form� par de grands piliers carr閟 qui ont douze pieds de haut sur deux de large.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They doth stere a man to veneryous actes, for they doth auge and increase the seede of generacion.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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On arriving at the Teutonic or old German tongue, we find the same connexion still existing: _Avg_, _auga_, -- _oculus_; whence _ougen ostendere_ -- Gothis _augo_; and _awe, auge, ave, campus ad {26} amnem_.
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The name is probably derived from an old Aryan word, meaning "sight" or "eye," which has come to us in the Greek αὐγή, and the German _auge_.
Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology James Freeman Clarke 1849
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En Julio de 1937, en el auge de la Guerra Civil española, la corresponsal de guerra Martha Gellhorn describió cómo esquivaba los ataques de artillería mientas se hospedaba en el opulento Hotel Palace de Madrid.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Miranda France 2011
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Ella trabaja de acuerdo a los pedidos que recibe de sus clientes, los fines de semana con mucho mas auge que los otros días, puede llegar a tener 3 a 4 pedidos de tortas los fines de semana.
Kiva Loans 2010
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