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  • Intricacies of a grand theater should be appreciated, but a club not need concern itself too much with design esthetics.

    Ben E. Kessler: The Fillmore Silver Spring: What's in a Name? Ben E. Kessler 2011

  • Intricacies wove along the frontiers of belts and zones.

    The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

  • Perplexities, and Intricacies, and Difficulties shall I be exposed to?

    John Adams diary 19, 16 December 1772 - 18 December 1773 1961

  • For the rest, common Observation and Practice bids me stop here, and demands a Clearing those dark Intricacies which attend

    The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

  • Six years after he gave up the Business Career and consecrated himself to something more Important, Mr. Pallzey had so well mastered the baffling Intricacies that he was allowed to trail in a Foursome with the President of the Club.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Six years after he gave up the Business Career and consecrated himself to something more Important, Mr. Pallzey had so well mastered the baffling Intricacies that he was allowed to trail in a Foursome with the President of the Club.

    Ade's Fables George Ade 1905

  • Intricacies that seem tedious and puzzling on paper appear to be clear enough on the stage: it is much more easy to remember the history and circumstances of a person whom we see before us, than to attach these to a mere name -- especially as the name is sure to be clipped down from _Honeywood_ to _Hon. _ and from _Leontine_ to _Leon.

    Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series William Black 1869

  • Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 4x4 Baroque Music Festival began as an early-music fan's farewell to the summer, with four free concerts offered around Labor Day.

    NYT > Home Page By ALLAN KOZINN 2011

  • Lipogrammatist, engaged in a Ball with four and twenty Persons, who pursued him by Turns thro 'all the Intricacies and Labyrinths of a Country Dance, without being able to overtake him.

    Spectator, May 12, 1711 1711

  • But I trifled away a whole Year in looking over a thousand Intricacies, without Friend to apply to in any Case of Doubt; so that I only lived there among Men, as little Children are sent to School before they are capable of Improvement, only to be out of harms way.

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

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