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  • It seemed to have no particular significance except description for description's sake, and unlike descriptions of period clothes, jewellery, architecture etc, it wasn't specific to the setting and gave me no particular sense of time and place.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Carla 2006

  • It may not have been a great hook, but the description's amusing enough that I'd page through it and give it a chance if I found it on a shelf.

    HH Com 464 Miss Snark 2006

  • It seemed to have no particular significance except description for description's sake, and unlike descriptions of period clothes, jewellery, architecture etc, it wasn't specific to the setting and gave me no particular sense of time and place.

    Sense of smell in historical fiction Carla 2006

  • "Hey, my job description's pretty broad, but it doesn't say anything about climbing fifteen or twenty feet down a well."

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Right now, we're just not commenting on how much information we know about the suspect, and that description's part of it.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2002 2002

  • I mean, the whole job assignment and description's changed dramatically in the last 10 days.

    CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2001 2001

  • Source observed the PWs for only two or three minutes and did not look carefully; therefore, he was unable to give distinct description's of the two men.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • Unfortunately, the description's format does not make this clear.

    Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage John Goerzen

  • "We've got instructions to look out for a cawr, and the description's no unlike yours."

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

  • 'We've got instructions to look out for a cawr, and the description's no unlike yours.'

    The Adventure of the Radical Candidate 1915

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