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  • I used all of the vowels a-e in these three-letter words, a, e, i, o and u.

    Learn to Speak and Read English « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • Additionally, the Joint Rul124 (1) (a-e) that the functions of the Joint committee on Ethics and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

  • I don't remember all that was supposed to have happened to the o-syllables, unfortunately, but e-i and a-e alternations are said to be remnants of the Old Japanese vowel system.

    languagehat.com: CLASSICAL JAPANESE POETRY. 2005

  • Now, the word I'm assuming he meant is an extremely obscure one, and with most authors I'd weigh the likelihoods the other way, in favor of his having written limn, but Crowley is so learned I discovered he wrote another book with an a-e ligature in the title, Ægypt—is that a modern record? that I tend to favor mine.

    languagehat.com: THE PERILS OF A FANCY VOCABULARY. 2005

  • Figure parts a-e with crossed nichols. (a) Micrographic groundmass surrounds feldspar phenocryst fragment. (b) Micrographic groundmass around clinopyroxene phenocryst.

    granophyre_photos.html 1998

  • However, these a-e too light to be useful for weighing the food pieces.

    Chapter 23 1977

  • All those I have named a-e heroes, skilled in weapons, endued with great might, solicitous of admission into heaven, conversant with morality, and skilled in battle.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • The rabbet at the end of the piece X is cut not the entire width of the piece Y, but only the width of the lap, -- c-f = a-e.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • Rightly speaking, a kind of potential plural is involved (K.S. 260 a-e), as the fullness of the potentialities that lie in God is expressed by the plural of 'elohim, which may even be used with a plural form of its predicate adjective

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

  • Besides, Esau either himself hears or hears by report that in the blessing spoken at the dismissal (observe how the infinitive construction goes over into the finite verb, K.S. 413 a-e) Isaac even commanded Jacob not to take a

    Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

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