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  • But another group already uses the name-a gay-and-lesbian organization.

    Divided We Fall 2008

  • I could not recall the Comes's name-a Roman one, for all he was supposed to be as much a Briton as the rest of us.

    Black Horses For The King McCaffrey, Anne 1996

  • The Plant had no name-a precaution insisted on by nervous men whose occupation it was to worry about such things-and was built into the western slope of the Andes.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Perhaps he should have been a devotee of Father Neptune or Poseidon as the Greeks knew him, but what's in a name-a god by any other name is still a pain in the ass.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • The Plant had no name-a precaution insisted on by nervous men whose occupation it was to worry about such things-and was built into the western slope of the Andes.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • The Plant had no name-a precaution insisted on by nervous men whose occupation it was to worry about such things-and was built into the western slope of the Andes.

    Orphan Star Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977

  • She complied slowly, opened reluctantly the clasps of bracelets and buckles, and above all the superb fastening of her diamond necklace on which the initial of her name-a gleaming S-resembled a sleeping serpent, imprisoned in a circle of gold.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Felice, she name-a our boy and to-morrow we go Padre Jenneeng.

    Terry A Tale of the Hill People Charles Goff Thomson

  • You see first the conning tower, standing up in the middle, a truly accurate name-a tower from which the officer of the watch can "con" the submarine because if he were down any lower he would generally be keeping company with the waves, whereas naturally for navigating on the surface he has to have some height of eye.

    A Glimpse Into A Submarine 1943

  • She complied slowly, opened reluctantly the clasps of bracelets and buckles, and above all the superb fastening of her diamond necklace on which the initial of her name-a gleaming S-resembled a sleeping serpent, imprisoned in a circle of gold.

    Fromont and Risler — Complete Alphonse Daudet 1868

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