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from The Century Dictionary.

  • On or to the left.

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  • In contrast the U.K. led by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, just 72 hours now in his new appointment, has decided to raise a terror aleft lerl to the highest level of critical.

    CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007 2007

  • Said, aleft the goad addressing to the foe that awes the flocks --

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Dismiss me as aleft wing loon if you will., but don’t make me laugh with these crocodile tear rants about finding Osama.

    The long fruitless hunt for Osama bin Laden 2008

  •     Said, aleft the goad addressing to the foe that awes the flocks — "Come, a service; haste, my brave one; let a fury the madman arm,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Said, aleft the goad addressing to the foe that awes the flocks — "Come, a service; haste, my brave one; let a fury the madman arm,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

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