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  • The truth was that they were all garden-variety creatures, rescued from pound or flea market according-to the whims of the various family members; nobody else had wanted any of them.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • The truth was that they were all garden-variety creatures, rescued from pound or flea market according-to the whims of the various family members; nobody else had wanted any of them.

    Yon Ill Wind Anthony, Piers 1996

  • Whether or not what we experienced was an according-to- Hoyle miracle is insignificant.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Lose 2011

  • One of those according-to Bulls was a lefty named by the name of Dan Johnson, who leads the league in homers and recently won the All-Star Home Run Derby in Lehigh Valley's

    Independent Weekly 2010

  • She saw herself figuring thus as a sort of Lespinasse, and believed that she had founded a rival salon by taking from the du Defiant of the little group several of her most attractive men, notably Swann himself, who had followed her in her secession and into her retirement, according-to a version for which one can understand that she had succeeded in gaining credit among her more recent friends, ignorant of what had passed, though without convincing herself.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

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