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They were really nurturing and encouraging and tried to see some potential in all these hap-hazard frames I'd end up taking.
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They were really nurturing and encouraging and tried to see some potential in all these hap-hazard frames I'd end up taking.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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These beings had been fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and loaded hap-hazard on those carts.
Les Miserables 2008
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Perhaps the whole thing goes simply by hap-hazard — taking its own course, like a drifting wreck without a rudder.
Little Eyolf 2008
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It uses it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and summary fashion.
Les Miserables 2008
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With the exception of Enjolras and Marius, who held their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard.
Les Miserables 2008
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He had in his chamber a marvellous portrait of no one knows whom, painted by Jordaens, executed with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused and hap-hazard manner.
Les Miserables 2008
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To drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what?
Les Miserables 2008
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He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin quarter.
Les Miserables 2008
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Perhaps the whole thing goes simply by hap-hazard — taking its own course, like a drifting wreck without a rudder.
Little Eyolf 2008
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