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  • "Don't try to sit," he had said, sounding almost apolo - getic.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Each sound added to the unique and ener-getic character of the grand marketplace.

    Emperor of Ansalon Niles, Douglas 1993

  • Anne McCaffrey terview with my mother, as I ruthlessly sent the drudges into the warm pools and sanded the backs of those whose ablutions were not ener - getic enough to suit my frame of mind, I regretted my hasty words on several counts.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

  • Some are quiet and gentle, some are funny and ener getic, some are helpful and reliable, and so on.

    Control Your Depression Peter M. Lewinsohn 1986

  • When he spoke again, it was in a surprisingly apolo-getic fashion.

    Mission to Moulokin Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1979

  • And pity for myself vanished, and there remained only the bestial need of some adroit, cunning, and ener - getic action.

    The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

  • "The genesis of (un) apolo-getic productions came about when I decided to do this show," said Joshua Hoover, founding artistic director.

    unknown title 2009

  • "The genesis of (un) apolo-getic productions came about when I decided to do this show," said Joshua Hoover, founding artistic director.

    unknown title 2009

  • There is a savage irony to getic thrust into the 21st lodestar of Indian tourism the fact that the unfolding century.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • It was of high importance lo the commercial States, tbat the Treaty-making power should be lodged where there could be a prompt and en getic exercise of it.

    The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States 1789

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