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  • Again he paced down the narrow gray corridor, aimlessly and planlessly, for what seemed miles and miles.

    The Moon of Skulls Howard, Robert E. 2005

  • Sait 1938: vi argued that “the great monuments of human activity—such as the state itself or the common law—have taken shape like the coral islands, planlessly, by a series of minor adjustments that result from the more or less mechanical reaction of man to his environment.”

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Sait 1938: vi argued that “the great monuments of human activity—such as the state itself or the common law—have taken shape like the coral islands, planlessly, by a series of minor adjustments that result from the more or less mechanical reaction of man to his environment.”

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Sait 1938: vi argued that “the great monuments of human activity—such as the state itself or the common law—have taken shape like the coral islands, planlessly, by a series of minor adjustments that result from the more or less mechanical reaction of man to his environment.”

    Rediscovering Institutions JAMES G. MARCH 1989

  • Woods tossing giant branches planlessly against a stormy sky.

    A Parody Outline of History 1921

  • Right . . . under Reese, the Giants have planlessly lucked into a 40-24 regular season record, playoffs twice, and one Lombardi trophy, accomplished through a victory over 18-0 New England that resulted from pure luck.

    NY Daily News 2011

  • This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution.

    What is Coming? 1906

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