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  • Or if they do build up the bottle to take the risk, what's the message being sent to someone with that novice's insecurity, when they have to pay for an editor to consider their work?

    Do Not Submit to Narrative Magazine Hal Duncan 2009

  • It was a novice's error and one for which Worcestershire paid a heavy price, as the remaining batsmen put up little resistance, crumbling to some lively pace from Anyon.

    Worcestershire 290, Sussex 16-0 | County Championship match report 2011

  • Now the novice's authority is such that all academe must submit to his unapologetic philistinism.

    Why are we letting business big shots alter our society? Catherine Bennett 2010

  • Partly this is the novice's desire to spell out everything that happens to the charecter, to create a complete log of his life, which means for each of these moments to be part of the story my protagonist gets very busy and has several sixteen to twenty hour days.

    Promises, Promises joshenglish 2010

  • He straightened up with a novice's robe in one hand.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • A little hesitantly, I let the novice's robe drop from my arms.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • It feels more relaxed than government-controlled areas, too, right down to the rap on the novice's phones.

    Mekong Flows Along Troubled Myanmar's East 2010

  • He was uncovered, clad only in a novice's short gown; the charcoal brazier in the corner made the room comfortably warm, if smoky.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • And when it was the novice's [Kathrin's] turn, she took the novice-mistress with her.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • He was desperately thin still, but the shoulders were broad and straight beneath the rough fabric of the novice's habit, and the grace of his strength was returning; he sat solidly without a tremor, back straight and legs curled back beneath the stool, the lines of his body firm and harmonious.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

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