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Ann Povey, who later married a son of the Drury Lane figure,
Cast and Characters 2008
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The end of this is bare speculative truth: and whatsoever can afford the mind of man any such, falls under this branch, whether it be God himself, angels, spirits, bodies; or any of their affections, as number, and figure,
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They moved the action from eighteenth-century Germany to eleventh-century Bohemia, and the deus ex machina is no longer the supernatural Wandering Jew but a historical figure,
Lewis/Gounod's Bleeding Nonne: An Introduction and Translation of the Scribe/Delavigne Libretto 2005
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(GDP), the rest of the world spends more than double that figure,
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But while SASSA aimed at bringing operating expenses more in line with the internationally accepted three percent figure,
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I told my wife and daughter what he had said, and finding that they wished to see the figure,
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With the steely expression of a crime-fighting action figure,
USATODAY.com - U.S. keeper thrust into spotlight at World Cup 2002
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Standing magnificently like this, as the principal figure,
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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Standing magnificently like this, as the principal figure,
Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho 2003
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A further point worth investigating is how many ways of proving the same conclusion can be obtained by varying the figure,
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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