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'Dissipated' was not the right word for the strange phenomenon which followed the detonation.
Phantom Fleet Ernsting, Walter 1976
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Deborah ou les anges dissipés (Deborah, or The Dissipated Angels) — her first prize-winning novel, set in 1948, shortly before the establishment of the state of Israel, was granted the coveted Femina award in 1991.
Paula Jacques. 2009
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Dissipated in public, where, amidst their licentiousness, I check them; I pursue the Unhappy in private, where I counsel and endeavour to assist them.
Cecilia 2008
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Also to the extent that it bears, there is a positive trend in Total Annual Dissipated Power, using a ARMA(1,1) model, of about 0.5% per year, which has a 0.09 significance (i.e. just significant at the 10% level, a level usually not considered as “significant” for academic results).
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At Colledge, the weather still remaining Clowdy all Day, till 6 o'Clock, when the Clowds were Dissipated, and the sun brake forth in all his glory.
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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"Dissipated young coxcombs, disabled soldiers, dragoon officers with fierce mustaches, and worldly-wise men with formal wigs," says our author,
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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Dissipated single men, professional libertines, and married men who are immoderate, often pay the penalty of their violations of the laws of nature, by losing their vital power.
Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis
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Dissipated single men, professional libertines, and married men who are immoderate, often pay the penalty of their violations of the laws of nature, by losing their vital power.
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Dissipated as he was, his master had the imprudent confidence to trust him with money; and, having received thirty pounds on his master's account, he lost it at the gaming table.
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Well, Roylance just stepped back so as to make himself heard, and shouted coolly: 'Dissipated! that comes well from you, sir, considering the reason for the singular arrangement of your own _ménage!
The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand
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