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  • By now he realized that the retelling of sym THE NIGHT FACE bolic myths wa a standard conversational gambit here, like a Lochlanna's inquiry after the health of your father.

    do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010

  • Another kind blasts their way into our lives and brings to our knees and all we can do is froth at the mouth and make blood curdling “ khoon pey jayenge” type hyper bolic statements.

    Narrow Domestic Walls Shantanud 2008

  • It used to be a branch of dyne:bolic but it was like 2 years ago.

    Puredyne Turns Any Computer Into A Multimedia Powerhouse | Lifehacker Australia 2008

  • In this light, the water torture phrase is definitely the sort of material to subject to further ‘Ana-bolic’ investigation.

    Anabolic Inquiries Into Bush���s Subconscious 2007

  • In Engineering I find a surly Varese supervising two men cleaning the guts of a junction box with what smells like car-bolic.

    Passage at Arms Cook, Glen 1985

  • This is pursued undoubtedly in accordance with the old idea that the punishment should be commensurate with the sin and bear a sym - bolic relationship to it; those succumbing to vanity and sensuous lust, and with them their seducers, the min - strels, are punished with the instruments of their sins.

    MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN 1968

  • New sym - bolic objects and animals are now added to the reper - tory of the artist in France, Germany, and the Low

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

  • Nevertheless, the central theme — that mathematics is derivable from logic — persisted, and the Principia Mathematica has continued to be a source of both inspiration and sym - bolic modes for workers in the foundations of mathe - matics and logic.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas RAYMOND L. WILDER 1968

  • There the style is described (I, 656) as “decorative and sym - bolic” and seen as an expression of the Counter -

    BAROQUE IN LITERATURE REN 1968

  • Civic functions, although de - scribed in detail, are usually less important than sym - bolic aspects in the outlining of the overall shape of the utopian town plan.

    THE CITY MOSHE BARASCH 1968

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