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  • The tale of Huck and Nigger Jim drifting down the mighty river on a raft, cross-secting the various primitive aspects of human existence, constitutes one of the most impressive examples of picaresque fiction in any language.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Jim drifting down the mighty river on a raft, cross-secting the various primitive aspects of human existence, constitutes one of the most impressive examples of picaresque fiction in any language.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume II, Part 1: 1886-1900 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • The tale of Huck and Nigger Jim drifting down the mighty river on a raft, cross-secting the various primitive aspects of human existence, constitutes one of the most impressive examples of picaresque fiction in any language.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • I see the list of intersection improvements TDK, Cross town and the Parkway ---- hmm me thinks we'll be seeing a nice road connecting Coweta County at Lake McIntosh - through TDK and Cross town out to 54,, not a nice road (country wise) but another 54 bi-secting the city with traffic and lights ..

    unknown title 2009

  • - Now let it grill by secting boundary, all ribs and all spars (crossing windows) - Make changes, if needed

    All Discussion Groups: Message List - root 2009

  • Never mind, Madam, that the bi-secting of this country you would happily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam and not repairing it but burrowing into it.

    The News Hole 2008

  • Never mind, Madam, that the bi-secting of this country you would happily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam and not repairing it but burrowing into it.

    The News Hole 2008

  • Never mind, Madam, that the bi-secting of this country you would happily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam and not repairing it but burrowing into it.

    Crooks and Liars 2008

  • a priori (or simpliciter) like the axioms of geometry; they had to be reached by analysis or resolution of experimental objects, a process involving first, a dis - secting of the object or phenomenon, and then, an inductive leap.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HENRY GUERLAC 1968

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