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botanical plant nameauthor abbreviation forbotanist Jean Baptiste Geneviève Marcellin Bory (1778-1846).
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Examples
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The driver pushed my car over to the side while I went to call Bory, who came to take me home.
Hush: It's Epilepsy 2008
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The driver pushed my car over to the side while I went to call Bory, who came to take me home.
Hush: It's Epilepsy 2008
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[Footnote 143: Teutschländer, p. 201.] [Footnote 144: According to Vaillant and others there were two officers each with 300 men, and Michael ran his sword through one of the officers, but before he could withdraw it the other, called Bory, struck him down with his halberd.]
Roumania Past and Present James Samuelson
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I had got on the top of the hill to the left of the Pentenchry, when I hearn ole 'Bory' blow.
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While George Bory , head of credit strategy at UBS Securities in Stamford, Conn., notes liquidity has improved somewhat with the recent rally in prices of corporate bonds, finding and trading bonds without moving prices remains challenging.
Is It a Debt Rally if Nobody Trades? Matt Phillips 2011
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With respect to the absence of whole orders on oceanic islands, Bory St. Vincent long ago remarked that Batrachians frogs, toads, newts have never been found on any of the many islands with which the great oceans are studded.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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With respect to the absence of whole orders on oceanic islands, Bory St. Vincent long ago remarked that Batrachians frogs, toads, newts have never been found on any of the many islands with which the great oceans are studded.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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But my most profound thanks go to Bory, who always walks beside me, regardless of stares, and who one day four years ago put a computer with a modem on my desk.
Hush: It's Epilepsy 2008
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A few days later, Bory received a letter saying that because of my "nervous condition," I had been removed from his company health-insurance plan.
Hush: It's Epilepsy 2008
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A few days later, Bory received a letter saying that because of my "nervous condition," I had been removed from his company health-insurance plan.
Hush: It's Epilepsy 2008
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