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  • Mind, he’s a fascinating mind to behold in weaving a multitude of topics and lores together, but ‘tis seven long volumes, lad.

    The Codex Continual » Manthar’s Notes: Kharndam Calendars (Part I) 2009

  • With its telltale white throat, white and black striped head with yellow “lores” between the beak and eyes, gray breast, and auburn back and wings, it looks fairly drab even against the bleak backdrop of snow.

    White-Throated Sparrows and the Return of Old Sam Peabody 2008

  • Surely, these are based on primal tribal lores and customs.

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

  • I say this as even their own American Asian writers use such similar backgrounds and plottings when writing about strange Chinese customs and lores - very interesting to non-Chinese, but rather pedestrian to especially overseas Chinese readers.

    Postscriptum Tashum Sharon Bakar 2005

  • I always liked the words: lores and gorget. sounds naughty.

    Breasted Birds John L. Trapp 2006

  • Some 16 species are named for the color of their lores, from Black-lored Babbler to Yellow-lored Parrot.

    Breasted Birds John L. Trapp 2006

  • And the paternal grandparents, lores and Dub Hughes, could barely contain themselves.

    Texas Lawman Chambers, Ginger 1998

  • Surely all the lores of the world were gathered here.

    Alvin Journeyman Card, Orson Scott 1995

  • This she did only rarely, because the books were for the most part collections of the old lores that men called magic, and the queen guarded her skills with jealousy.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • I found Vannelle so far my superior in the knowledge of all earthly lores, that I at length came to think it possible he might be the appointed instrument of communicating the singular intelligence that he sought.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

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