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  • Blue walked through the linked chambers of the lab, in - specting the android production line.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • First it skips a few days, shows up late, now it's turning up in the middle of the night, 'specting to be let in?

    WMAM, Swingin' by late-night 2008

  • September 19th, 2008 10:10 am ET what they were specting being in iraq for so long, taking care of another country, when is our country the it needs help.

    How Financial Madness Overtook Wall Street 2008

  • First it skips a few days, shows up late, now it's turning up in the middle of the night, 'specting to be let in?

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Blue walked through the linked chambers of the lab, in - specting the android production line.

    Unicorn Point Anthony, Piers 1989

  • Heresy is seen as a call to self-criticism by the Church, for the heretic normally becomes so by overemphasizing one aspect of Christian truth re - specting which the Church has been lax.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968

  • Not 'sactly a crown; but I was' specting to see a queen different from other people.

    Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

  • Our last visit to Aunt Lucy must have been prearranged, for as she admitted us, she said, "I's mighty glad yos done come so soon, 'cos I been' specting yos, and mus 'take yos right in to de General."

    The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

  • "I was 'specting you to ask that, Mr. Payne," was the drawled reply.

    The Plunderer Henry Oyen 1902

  • "If I can manage to fetch the boat up the river without any of the varmints 'specting it, it'll be just the thing."

    The Phantom of the River Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

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