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  • I wish it could remember the provider settings by default when I recall the widget back from its "dormient" dashboard dock without re selecting all the time.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

  • A little before the Resurrection: - Nunc dormient milites, & veniet anima Christi de inferno, cum Adam & Eva, Abraham, John Baptist, & aliis.

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • Exploits, but rather suffer his famous Actions to lye dormient for so many years in England, at the same time that other Nations have Pubshed them abroad?

    Bucaniers of America: 1685

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