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  • Slowly Tanis raised the hand that held the Crown of Power, slowly he lifted it-not to Kitiara's head-but to his own.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • Since it was a vital moment in the Sioux campaign, and every survivor has recorded his recollections of it-not just who said what, but who understood what, or didn't, or sneezed, or scratched his backside-I must do the same.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • I do believe that the DoJ should be the ones to handle it-use the civil service people not the politicals to do all of it-not a “special prosecutor” due to all of the problems with that office during the Clinton years-the congress rethugs perverted the entire concept of what a special prosecutor should be.

    Dr. Doooom Is In The Room | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • To be successful, even as a transitional mayor, Riordan will have to find ways to provide it-not only for his already fervent supporters, but for the larger Los Angeles, much of which does not yet vote, but whose potency is already undeniable.

    'The Lesser Of Two Evils' 2008

  • Thanks Barbara-I'm still working on it-not so happy with the text-I'm having trouble getting it to do what I want!

    Wonky Raivas Lindy 2006

  • I say yes, but only if they are doing it because they really love it-not because there was no job opening at "Entertainment Tonight."

    Married With Children ... And A Tv Career 2007

  • I'd read an article written by a fellow who walked the length of it-not from Albany, but from the Westchester County line.

    The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004

  • For all that her emotional self enjoyed the idea of putting Locke's plan into motion, her logical self warned that there were far too many loopholes in it-not to mention pitfalls.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • She had always, from the moment she arrived, been shockingly short-sighted, and had never been assigned to Field work on account of it-not the best notion to put someone in the Field whose precious glass goggles could be lost or broken, rendering her the next thing to blind.

    Sun In Glory Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • The current view is that what serves as food to a living thing is what is contrary to it-not that in every pair of contraries each is food to the other: to be food a contrary must not only be transformable into the other and vice versa, it must also in so doing increase the bulk of the other.

    On the Soul 2002

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