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- noun Plural form of
lightening .
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This set includes bliss glamour gloves (self-activating, rapeseed and multivitamin gel-lined moisture gloves) and bliss glamour glove gel (an anti-aging treatment gel that sinks deep into the skin to treat sunspots with lightenings lemon and pigment purging parsley extract). £48 www.blisslondon.co.uk
Archive 2009-03-01 Thatsnews 2009
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This set includes bliss glamour gloves (self-activating, rapeseed and multivitamin gel-lined moisture gloves) and bliss glamour glove gel (an anti-aging treatment gel that sinks deep into the skin to treat sunspots with lightenings lemon and pigment purging parsley extract). £48 www.blisslondon.co.uk
Mums Rock! Thatsnews 2009
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Apparently, thundersnow is a snow storm where it lightenings and thunders as the snow falls, creating I think an almost strobe-light effect.
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Apparently, thundersnow is a snow storm where it lightenings and thunders as the snow falls, creating I think an almost strobe-light effect.
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Apparently, thundersnow is a snow storm where it lightenings and thunders as the snow falls, creating I think an almost strobe-light effect.
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The editio princeps (1820) reads lightnings, for which Rossetti substitutes lightenings — a conjecture described by Forman as
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B. however supports Rossetti, and in point of fact Shelley usually wrote lightenings, even where the word counts as a dissyllable (Locock).
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Filling the abyss with sun-like lightenings, (4 276.)
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Now, these persistent assuagements of his misery, and lightenings of his load, had by this time begun to have the effect of making Mr. Bounderby softer than usual towards Mrs. Sparsit, and harder than usual to most other people from his wife downward.
Hard Times 2002
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It will be necessary to observe what happens in successive years, but there must not be the slightest doubt that we will cut the very last stalk of cane, even if it rains, thunders, lightenings; even if there is a threat of aggression, invasion, or whatever.
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