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  • As soon as I released her from the box she had been brought to me in, the distressed kitty leapt at my face, giving my cheek a scratch which would have been very painful, had it been caused by a fullgrown cat.

    Broken Symmetry 2010

  • But your son is fullgrown and the wounds he deals are far bitterer, for they are inflicted on you while you yet live and see the light of day.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • But your son is fullgrown and the wounds he deals are far bitterer, for they are inflicted on you while you yet live and see the light of day.

    The Defense Apuleius 2008

  • You can enCourage family members or friends — either teen or fullgrown ones — with Giraffe books.

    The Giraffe Heroes Project - EnCouraging Today's Heroes, Training Tomorrow's 2007

  • If it could kill a fullgrown Lizard and a pack of Croaks, it probably could dispatch a street kid without much trouble.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • Pechorin, gentlemen, is in fact a portrait, but not of one man only: he is a composite portrait, made up of all the vices which flourish, fullgrown, amongst the present generation.

    A Hero of Our Time 2003

  • Of the irrational element one division seems to be widely distributed, and vegetative in its nature, I mean that which causes nutrition and growth; for it is this kind of power of the soul that one must assign to all nurslings and to embryos, and this same power to fullgrown creatures; this is more reasonable than to assign some different power to them.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • Of the irrational element one division seems to be widely distributed, and vegetative in its nature, I mean that which causes nutrition and growth; for it is this kind of power of the soul that one must assign to all nurslings and to embryos, and this same power to fullgrown creatures; this is more reasonable than to assign some different power to them.

    The Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle 2002

  • They did not, of course, try to divorce it completely from Vulcan, but they went back to the original Old High Vulcan roots and “aged” the words in another direction, as it were—producing a language as different from its ancient parent and the other “fullgrown” tongue as Basque is different from Spanish and their parent, Latin.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • They did not, of course, try to divorce it completely from Vulcan, but they went back to the original Old High Vulcan roots and “aged” the words in another direction, as it were—producing a language as different from its ancient parent and the other “fullgrown” tongue as Basque is different from Spanish and their parent, Latin.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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