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Last night, very late; in a kind of a snail-train they call the express.
Chapter XXXII 1917
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“Last night, very late; in a kind of snail-train they call the express.
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"Last night, very late; in a kind of snail-train they call the express.
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"Last night, very late; in a kind of snail-train they call the express.
The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 Henry James 1879
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Empirical approaches to philosophy seem unable to do away with appeal to intuitions as the grounds for believing some conclusion follows from the premises, to support ampliative inferences that go beyond observations to more general claims, or to discover the essence of concepts that non-natural kind terms express.
A Priori Justification and Knowledge Russell, Bruce 2007
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Faced with the impossibility of traveling to Chile to present my book, Cuba Libre, a few days ago the publisher sent me ten copies, in a single package marked "express."
Google Says "No" to China, But DHL Says "Yes" to Castro 2010
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There's only one problem with the court's assertion that the Siegelman team argued that the agreement must be "express."
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Never does the Siegelman team do what the 11th Circuit claims it does: assert that the agreement must be "express."
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The key then to second-degree murder is "implied malice," as opposed to malice that is aforethought or "express."
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"MY DEAR QUINCY AND ALICE: I was going to write nephew and niece, but you both seem nearer and dearer to me than those formal titles express.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks Charles Felton Pidgin 1883
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