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I looked again at the Martian, and saw he was now moving eastward along the riverbank, with a swift, rolling motion,
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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As naturall instinct was her first tutor thereto, so wanted she not a second maine and urging motion,
The Decameron 2004
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Speaking during the period given over to notices of motion,
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ADKISON: Most people will lose a little bit of motion,
Press Briefing By Physicians Attending To President ITY National Archives 1997
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All the girls come to greet us, so sweet in slow motion,
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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With that single thought he was out of bed in a single motion,
Blockade, Lepso Brand, Kurt 1976
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It is essentially a phenomenon of measurement applicable to all forms of matter and is a reciprocal effect: if A and B are two observers in uniform relative motion,
TIME AND MEASUREMENT G. J. WHITROW 1968
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Senator Eugene Hale, who retired from the Senate on his own motion,
Fifty Years of Public Service Shelby M. Cullom
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When the intelligent hound gave a bay and led the way along the trail of the thief, his nose close to the ground and his tail in perpetual motion,
With Trapper Jim in the North Woods Lawrence J. Leslie
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Therefore it had been resolved in a kind of council, on the captain's motion,
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 Various
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