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The light remained red but its catercornered cousin had turned amber.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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The light remained red but its catercornered cousin had turned amber.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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The light remained red but its catercornered cousin had turned amber.
When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman 1985
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A vast, curving whiteness hung catercornered in the sky.
A Matter of Importance Murray Leinster 1935
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I have just crept in to take a look at my precious Dinkie, fast asleep in the old cast-iron crib that is growing so small for him he has to lie catercornered on his mattress.
The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912
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a little stuff if you 'd ha' cut that left arm more catercornered, — 't would ha 'been full long, I guess, and there a'n't no nap, o' no account, on satinet.
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