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  • Snob is right, that is all. now how do I work blog? where to press butan, maybe pay someone do this for me

    Hands Off: From "Do Me" to "Do It For Me" BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • She said shed call on me when you came back, butan elegant shrugshe never did.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • We are pleased Sen. Baucus is feeling the pressure and reacting butan off-the-record meetingis not enough.

    Baucus to Meet with Single Payer Advocates 2009

  • The onomatopoeia makes it pretty obvious what this sentence says, though another linguistic weirdness is the use of stemn as opposed to stefn, but note the emphasis here (repeated elsewhere in the grammar) that is given to, of all things, trees: gemenged stemn is, ‏ ‏ þe bið butan andgyt, swylc swa is hryðera gehlow and horsa hnægung, hunda gebeorc, treowa brastlung, et cetera ...

    Archive 2007-01-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • “In terms of Earth technology today, we have achieved a maximum of 1015 watts of laser power for a brief period, butan advanced civilisation could have lasers with powers of 1025.”

    SETI Finds Regular Laser Pulse In Space | Impact Lab 2009

  • Walking day after day for many miles in a foreign country is not only a different travel experience, butan educational experience.

    Personal Reflections 2009

  • Otherwise, not only will the boys ignore you butan’ trust me on this, my sister’s flat as youwe’re talkin’ the Great Plains of East Texasno landmarksone day you’ll look down and have no wares at all.

    Excerpt: Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl 2006

  • Walking day after day for many miles in a foreign country is not only a different travel experience, butan educational experience.

    Cultural 2008

  • Walking day after day for many miles in a foreign country is not only a different travel experience, butan educational experience.

    November 2008 2008

  • Walking day after day for many miles in a foreign country is not only a different travel experience, butan educational experience.

    Never Know What to Expect 2008

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