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  • For the dates, I usually check the author's sites (my favorite 20 are all bookmarked on my computer) and counter-check with Amazon.

    Angels' Blood Countdown: Alison Sinclair - Darkborn ARC Nalini Singh 2009

  • This has led the atheist community to produce their own counter-check move, calculated to try to change that perception and throw a more positive light on who atheists are as people.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Flash-ahah 2008

  • This has led the atheist community to produce their own counter-check move, calculated to try to change that perception and throw a more positive light on who atheists are as people.

    The Brights Agenda Flash-ahah 2008

  • "We have learnt from this experience that reporters have to check and counter-check their stories," Rusike said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • We have seen how, as a counter-check to philosophy and Buddhism, the Code of Manu reasserted the authority of the Vedas, and riveted anew the chains of caste, and how it compensated for its oppressiveness by many wholesome and benign regulations -- accomplishing more, perhaps, than all other literatures combined to maintain the stability of Hinduism, through its many vicissitudes, and in spite of the heterogeneous elements which it received and incorporated.

    Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood

  • Between us and them it is a never-ending series of move and countermove, check and counter-check.

    Okewood of the Secret Service Valentine Williams 1914

  • Rome to counter-check the English bishops who were appealing against the legate; in this he failed, for the legate was recalled, and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • This as counter-check to his tendency to flee, leaving me in sole charge.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • The "counter-check quarrelsome" would have been welcome enough.

    Captain Desmond, V.C. Maud Diver 1906

  • He bent forward, and went through the usual form of "For what we have received," though all the time he was thinking of the "counter-check quarrelsome" he had received from his next-door neighbor.

    We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880

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