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  • Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo bad news from my email list they are writing or calling saying they are having a deuce of a time getting recognized, re: password unrecognition, non-recognition of UID and more.

    OpEdNews - Diary: Support OpEdNews for Blogger's choice awards; Please Vote 2007

  • Even more, their bodies are fragmented, mutilated and dishevelled towards unrecognition.

    POSTMODERN LITERATURE: 2007

  • He started over as though to address them, but as they immediately bent on him glances of withering unrecognition, he waited until they had started unsteadily down the street, and then followed at about forty paces, chuckling to himself and saying,

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • It was a large relief to be no longer an object of public curiosity; but Twichell, as in the Bermuda trip, did not feel quite honest, perhaps, in altogether preserving the mask of unrecognition.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • She gazed with stony unrecognition at the face that confronted her in the dark yellow-spotted mirror over the table.

    AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

  • She is not dead, but she gazes at you with a vacant stare of unrecognition.

    Princess Zara Ross Beeckman

  • He started over as though to address them, but as they immediately bent on him glances of withering unrecognition, he waited until they had started unsteadily down the street, and then followed at about forty paces, chuckling to himself and saying "Oh, boy!" over and over under his breath, in delighted, anticipatory tones.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1922

  • He started over as though to address them, but as they immediately bent on him glances of withering unrecognition, he waited until they had started unsteadily down the street, and then followed at about forty paces, chuckling to himself and saying, "Oh, boy!" over and over under his breath, in delighted, anticipatory tones.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

  • The dark stone frowned at him, the leaded windows stared at him through a blind film of unrecognition, the carven gargoyles grinned mockingly at him.

    The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • Ross looked out of the window and laughed as he took her hand (which he shook with a long up and down motion), but he was set at better ease by her apparent unrecognition of the fact that the decorations were for her.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

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