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  • The originals boasted Moshier's "Saturnine," Allemana's "This Way, This Time" with lyrics by Sullivan which, she confessed, she'd only finished about an hour before the show, and Sullivan's own "I Am Not," with its floor-dropping time-signature shifts in the bridge.

    Robert Rodi: Four Horns, One Siren: Black Bear Combo and the Rebecca Sullivan Quintet Robert Rodi 2010

  • But where would be the poor old "Saturnine" if obliged to do better than the authors it abuses?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • The originals boasted Moshier's "Saturnine," Allemana's

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Rodi 2010

  • Her latest album, Saturnine, however, looks to Oates's past, not the present.

    Jackie Oates: the new face of folk 2012

  • Last month, her fourth album, Saturnine, ranked highly in end-of-year polls; next month, she is part of HMV's Next Big Thing tour, and is a frontrunner for singer and album of the year at the Radio 2 Folk awards.

    Jackie Oates: the new face of folk 2012

  • In no time, we will all be enjoying books once more about the Warlords of Mars, the Amazons of Venus, the Jovial giants of Jupiter, the Saturnine Old Men of Saturn (these last somehow having a solid surface) not to mention the inhabitants of Pluto, either Space-Eskimos, Palainians, or perhaps Fungi from Yuggoth, exasperated that their beloved planet was demoted to the status of a dwarf world.

    SF Tidbits for 10/26/06 2006

  • Kepler aims at in his nuncio Syderio, when he will have [1172] Saturnine and Jovial inhabitants: and which Tycho Brahe doth in some sort touch or insinuate in one of his epistles: but these things [1173] Zanchius justly explodes, cap.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • [1169] Gregorius Tholsanus makes seven kinds of ethereal spirits or angels, according to the number of the seven planets, Saturnine, Jovial, Martial, of which

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Saturnine faces were wreathed in smiles worthy of a pirouetting dancer.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • Saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand, to

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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