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Nobuyuki "Nobu" Matushisa out to sea for 12 days and 7 specially-prepared dinners.
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Night and day, people bring specially-prepared foods to be shared, at least in spirit, with their dear departed, including a bread, flavored with sugar, orange peel and anise that they call "bread of the dead."
Sandy Goodman: Forget Halloween But Take A Good Look At The Day Of The Dead 2008
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According to Wallace, these similarities acted like "friction upon the specially-prepared match," eliciting the "flash of insight" that led each of them to their theory about the survival of the fittest.
Darwin and His Doppelgänger Sulloway, Frank J. 2003
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Bottles of dark, bubbling liquid, herbs, the smoke of animal hides and steam from specially-prepared traditional medicines; these are among the "cures" for HIV/AIDS being touted by some of
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It was constructed of a species of oak, found in abundance in the forest west of the town, and was cut up into boards, and dried in specially-prepared kilns which were put up for the purpose.
The Wonder Island Boys: Adventures on Strange Islands Roger Thompson Finlay
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It is covered with the specially-prepared cane matting, which descends in front of it to the ground.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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In A.D. 698 the monks disinterred his remains in order to place them in a specially-prepared wooden coffin.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See Joseph E. Bygate
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In those days Latin and Greek Grammar, Latin Prose and “Latin and Greek Unseen,” and certain specially-prepared Greek and Latin Books were essentials.
The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922
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The height of the machine along the line D is thus equal to the line E from B to C, and the time of the flight from B to a being thus known, as well as the height of the machine, the observer consults specially-prepared tables which show just what kind of a curve the bomb will make at that height and speed.
Aeroplanes 1915
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But these elementary schools, after they receive their increase of money, must have specially-prepared teachers, or the money will procure scant returns.
Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of North Carolina, for the Scholastic Years 1898-'99 to 1899-1900 Charles Harden 1896
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