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  • Their marginal status may be foreshadowed by their having been the children of the secondary wife associated with the unpreferred primary wife, Leah.

    Zilpah: Bible. 2009

  • "For the kind of thinking that was thought to be culturally unpreferred, this system gets turned on," Gabrieli said.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Jan 2008

  • When he hooked up volunteers to a brain-scanning machine, the preferred pictures were shown to generate much more brain activity than the unpreferred shots.

    Why We're Powerless 2008

  • Secondly, that to be neglected and unpreferred by the public favour is not a punishment, because no new evil is thereby on any man inflicted; he is only left in the estate he was in before.

    Leviathan 2007

  • A left-handed child, or even an adult with a strongly inherited tendency to use the off-hand, may be made just as clever with the opposite and unpreferred member by persistent training.

    With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914

  • Mr. Johnson sat in a cell of Vesper Jail, charged with assault and battery in the _n_th degree; drunk and disorderly understood, but that charge unpreferred as yet.

    Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

  • Of this amount $1,000.000 is preferred stock, $800,000 of unpreferred stock, mortgaged under Act of December 18th, 1866.

    Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of North-Carolina, at Its Session 1868 1868 1868

  • Secondly, that to be neglected and unpreferred by the public favour is not a punishment, because no new evil is thereby on any man inflicted; he is only left in the estate he was in before.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • Secondly, that to be neglected, and unpreferred by the publique favour, is not a Punishment; because no new evill is thereby on any man Inflicted; he is onely left in the estate he was in before.

    Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 1633

  • Which soon turned out to be my unpreferred model, as I hadn't realized that the LG50 lacked some desirable features that the

    HinesSight 2009

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