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  • I just sort of wish that I could watch news without constant reminders of my incipent mortality and physical decrepitude.

    sirilyan Diary Entry sirilyan 2001

  • I – I know I 've made an awful botch of the thing, Miss Louise, he confessed, turning toward her with an honest distress and a self-flaying humility in his eyes that wiped from Billy Louise 's mind any incipent tendency toward comtempt.

    The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914

  • Hence, to the casual observer, the erratic nature of Genius is not distinguishable from some incipent forms of insanity.

    How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer 1864-1929 Sepharial 1896

  • "Subspecies are actually, therefore, neither incipent species nor models for the origin of species.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • "Subspecies are actually, therefore, neither incipent species nor models for the origin of species.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • At the first meeting of the general Court held 30 August, 1630, it was voted to build a house for the minister and maintain it at the state's expense -- an act of described by Benedict, in his History of the Baptists, as the first dangerous act performed by the rulers of this incipent government which led to innumerable evils, hardships, and privations to all who had the misfortune to dissent from the ruling power in after times.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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