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“Even an amateur can learn dissective anatomy quite quickly,” interrupted Goodsir, his voice strong enough to override the caulker's mate's.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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Our dapper little surgeon, with almost dissective inquisitiveness, pried into every nook and corner; and at length reached the slave kitchen, where
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot
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His eyes narrowed, his hands dropped to his side, and he squinted at her with the frigid dissective gaze of an artist studying the curves of a model.
The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball
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It is treated with a dissective delineation in the women of George Eliot unequalled in the pages of fiction.
The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849
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Frank R. Stockton is whimsically humorous, Edith Wharton cynically dissective; Mary Wilkins Freeman is most at home with rural New England character; and Thomas Nelson Page has done his best work in the South of reconstruction days.
American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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⁄ 3 series, a collection of smartly dissective tomes about notable rock albums, from Captain Beefheart's
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