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  • Socrates proceeded: Has it ever caught your observation,

    Memorabilia 2007

  • There was, however, at present no opportunity for farther observation,

    The Italian 2004

  • I am ignorant if these remarks are new, or if they will be confirmed by closer examination; but I think, that, on a hasty observation,

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Noting that Richardson's lawyers during his amnesty hearing were now asking for him to undergo psychiatric observation,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • "Kelly's an idiot," she said in a tone of dispassionate observation,

    Fire and Ice Stabenow, Dana 1998

  • The slight slope and high trees prevented visual observation,

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • The slight slope and high trees prevented visual observation,

    Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973

  • After standing over his body for a few minutes in silent observation,

    A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

  • So far is manual labor from meriting contempt or slight, that it will probably be found, when united with true means of spiritual culture, to foster a sounder judgment, a keener observation,

    Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various

  • "Larry's right," announced Ned, after a few moments observation,

    Comrades of the Saddle The Young Rough Riders of the Plains Frank V. Webster

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