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  • Straylight was crazy, was craziness grown in the resin concrete they'd mixed from pulverized lunar stone, grown in welded steel and tons of knick-knacks, all the bizarre impe - dimentia they'd shipped up the well to line their winding nest.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • A heart never broken is pristine and sterile and will never know the joy of being impe! rfect.

    The Personal Trainer Dilemma Pilgrimage to Self 2009

  • The girl's voice, also strangely accented, had none of the impe-riousness that Nan would have expected coming from the child of a "toff."

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Straylight was crazy, was craziness grown in the resin concrete they'd mixed from pulverized lunar stone, grown in welded steel and tons of knick-knacks, all the bizarre impe - dimentia they'd shipped up the well to line their winding nest.

    Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984

  • Ashbert one day vnder a colour to haue the yoong king foorth on hunting, led him into a thicke wood, and there cut off the head from his bodie, an impe by reason of his tender yéeres and innocent age, vnto the world

    Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England Raphael Holinshed

  • The confiding, if willing, dupe of aristocratic impe-cuniosity, Derues was a past master of the art of duping others.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • And this informant further saith, That presently after there appeared another white impe, with red spots, as big as a small dog, which shee then called Jarmara: and that immediately after, there appeared at the threshold of the doore another impe about the bignesse of the first, but did presently vanish away.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • And that a while after, this examinant and one Joyce Boanes, now in prison, did send each of them an impe to kill one Thomas Bumstead of St. Osyth: And that the impe which the said Joyce Boanes sent was a dund one like unto a mouse. —

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

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