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  • He needs to talk about what he will do if nominated/elected, not the mote's in his fellow candidates eyes.

    "Gloves come off: Mitt has 'choice' words for Giuliani." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Ye nobles! whose houses are as gorgeous as the mote's (who dwelleth in the sunbeam) -- ye strong and haughty squires -- ye dames exuberant with tingling blood -- ye maidens, whom not splendour has yet spoiled, will ye not think of the poor?

    Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829

  • Things like putting sand in each other's hair, building little trails or mote's for the fortress, eating it just because someone who was close to you kicked some up in your face and it appeared to taste good.

    Marine Corps Moms 2008

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