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To be sure, it would not do for her to make a habit of such errancies.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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To be sure, it would not do for her to make a habit of such errancies.
Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988
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Larry in these injured moods felt vague possibilities of wickedness within him, -- justified errancies ....
Together Robert Herrick 1903
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Like Milne's books, the movie is partly an initiation into the delightful errancies of language, which fashions sense and nonsense out of the same materials.
NYT > Home Page By A. O. SCOTT 2011
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In short, the crisis has come to tell us that the present system is exhausted - and not only because of its financial errancies - and that it is well past time to change eras.
t r u t h o u t 2009
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Sheffer -- who knew what makes business men laugh -- pinned his simple faith to three main subjects, convulsive of the diaphragmatic muscles, building up each series upon the inherent humor to be extracted from physical violence as represented in the perpetrations and punishments of Ruff and Reddy, marital infidelity as mirrored in the stratagems and errancies of an amorous ape with an aged and jealous spouse, and the sure-fire familiarity of aged minstrel jokes (mother-in-law, country constable, young married cookery, and the like) refurbished in pictorial serials through the agency of two uproarious and imbecilic vulgarians, Bonehead and Buttinsky.
Success A Novel Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914
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