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- verb Present participle of
seel .
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Examples
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He has succeeding in "seeling" his moral vision — sewing his eyelids shut, as falconers did to tame their jittery birds — so that even the most spectacular signs and wonders leave him indifferent.
In the Night Kitchen Greenblatt, Stephen 2008
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What kinde of rafters? what manner of roofe? after what sort the Parlors chambers, closets and lodgings, were disposed? with what kind of seeling they were enclosed and incrusted? wherewithall hanged? with what couler and kinde of painting ouerhead?
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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"But it seemed so cruel to pass a thread through his eyelids, -- which is called seeling, and must be done before he would bear the hood, -- that I could not think of it.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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Many authors I know are still openly hostile to social media, and resent the idea that they need to be thinking about other ways of communicating, and of seeling their books.
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Well, teh stalagatytes hang tyte tu teh seeling, whyl teh stalagamytes myte reech up tu teh wuns hangin daon.
Captafallaphobia - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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The bank seeling the loan immediately gets 1/3rd of the value of the loan in cash.
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The bank seeling the loan immediately gets 1/3rd of the value of the loan in cash.
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Stare at walls adn seeling fur lawng peeriodds ob tyme
Hey, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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Perhaps seeling it to the 'middle classes' will only be a problem if they are too short-sighted to see that improving the education and prospects of poorer children is actually in their interest?
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Hoods have replaced the old practice of seeling the eyelids of a hawk in training.
Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010
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