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The non-parallel planes of joy, sadness, and yearning form this sacred trinity.
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain Tamsin Smith 2011
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The non-parallel planes of joy, sadness, and yearning form this sacred trinity.
Tamsin Smith: Sketches of Spain Tamsin Smith 2011
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Reporting many literary and historical examples of non-parallel usage, it concludes:
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Each analyzer has the property of separating light incident upon its face into two outgoing non-parallel rays, the ordinary ray and the extraordinary ray.
Bell's Theorem Shimony, Abner 2009
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It creates an alternating series of forty-two hundred force fields that borrow from the energy matrices of forty-two hundred non-parallel dimensions not yet tapped by physical probes.
365 tomorrows » 2007 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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This has nothing to reflect the non-parallel technologies and everything to do with showing how waves of occupation and changes in trade affect daily lives.
Even in a little thing gillpolack 2009
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Law and sport are two different non-parallel universes.
In Boost To Franken, Minnesota Restores Missing Ballots To The Count 2009
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Anybody else notice the non-parallel nature of questions 3 and 4?
Status Quo Forever Michael Turton 2009
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This has nothing to reflect the non-parallel technologies and everything to do with showing how waves of occupation and changes in trade affect daily lives.
gillpolack: I have all sorts of exciting things to r gillpolack 2009
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I mean that I downright stole specific moments of his style in its high, descriptive mode: multisyllabic active verbs with lots of hard, aspirated consonants; tumbling, high energy, non-parallel lists of objects, sites and sights; lotsa onomatopoeic single syllable nouns of violently or powerfully connotative landmarks; less reliance on metaphor than on direct description -- and therefore a tendency to throw more words at a thing.
China Miévilling 2006
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