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  • Economics tends to put people to sleep and I thought maybe by creating a couple of islands with inhabitant's quite widely different activities, that it might get across the point that otherwise they get lost on.

    CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2009 2009

  • Economics tends to put people to sleep and I thought maybe by creating a couple of islands with inhabitant's quite widely different activities, that it might get across the point that otherwise they get lost on.

    CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2009 2009

  • The visiting inhabitant's convinced, but the village leader?

    The Ten Commandments in the World of Star Trek William Harryman 2009

  • If one wanted a new buffalo-robe, he would transform himself into a stretching-frame-or if very ambitious, into a tipi, and make off with all of the inhabitant's worldly goods.

    Werehunter Lackey, Mercedes 1999

  • As was true of every establishment they passed, the exterior reflected the inhabitant's occupation.

    The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • It was, as fate would have it, the worst winter in the oldest inhabitant's memory.

    Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923

  • There may be a hundred ways of apprehending the character of a man, but none perhaps is more reliable than the appearance of his dwelling, and no discerning person that stepped into Captain Tardivet's parlour could long remain in doubt of its inhabitant's pursuits and habits.

    The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • My oldest inhabitant's grandfather was clerk to a merchant in the city of London, and had therefore some opportunity of knowing his old schoolfellow's proceedings in the metropolis.

    Birds of Prey 1875

  • Let unfortunate Warsaw, and the miserable inhabitant's of the suburb of Praga in particular, tell!

    The American Union Speaker 1852

  • The clerk knew very well that this "PERHAPS" meant "CERTAINLY," but as he thought he could make more out of a tenant like the prince, he felt justified in speaking vaguely about the present inhabitant's intentions.

    The Idiot Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

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