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He has never glimpsed that prodigious fissure that clefts Mr. Mellaire's, or, rather,
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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As I drove up, Rob stood on the tavern deck, with an armload of artifacts -- driftwood, metal shards, and a buoy or two -- that he found on the beach, under the bridge where he lived with his dog, or rather,
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Given that a source exists which brings matter into existence, I would like to examine the possibility of not a localized big bang but rather,
Your Thoughts on the Next 10 Years of Astronomy & Astrophysics Julianne 2009
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Never heard I one describe his mistress, saying, ‘My beloved is the bigness of an elephant or like a mountain long and broad;’ but rather,
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"May be." my friend, I replied, is not the word; say rather,
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The first premise marks a break with a tradition of regarding Plato as a dialectician who held his assumptions tentatively and revised them constantly; rather,
Socrates Nails, Debra 2005
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Yet they were not the eyes of stupid oxen; rather,
The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003
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The Tories drily tell me, I may make my fortune, if I please; but I do not understand them — or rather,
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Not surprisingly, it was Shemp and Erin — or rather,
A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997
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Hard by a riverside got she, and did sing loud, the rather,
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