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The Commodore quite likely did breathe audibly now and then; but Nautica was wide awake, as shown by her announcing with feeling and frequency that "she knew we were dragging anchor and were just about to be horribly wrecked upon rocks or 'stobs' or something or other."
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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At the mouths of most of the creeks along the James are such "stobs" or broken pilings.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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All that we did it for was to run in close to look at some "stobs" just showing above the water.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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Among them was Lodro-tobden (Blo-gros stobs-ldan) of the powerful Gar family, who settled in Derge (sDe-dge), northern Kham.
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 4 The Pagmodru, Rinpung, and Tsangpa Hegemonies 2009
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The procedures for purifying ourselves of the negative force built up by a transgression and subsequent loss of our tantric vows are, in general, to apply the four opponent forces (stobs-bzhi), after openly admitting our transgression.
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When wisdom, as a tendency, is joined with manifest method, it is explained that method is held by the force (stobs) of the immediately preceding moment of manifest wisdom.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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The other two are rajas (speck of passion; Tib. rdul, speck of menstrual blood) and sattva (Tib. snying-stobs, mental strength).
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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When wisdom, as a tendency, is joined with manifest method, it is explained that method is held by the force (stobs) of the immediately preceding moment of manifest wisdom.
The Union of Method and Wisdom in Sutra and Tantra: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations 2006
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The other two are rajas (speck of passion; Tib. rdul, speck of menstrual blood) and sattva (Tib. snying-stobs, mental strength).
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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There are two types: (a) far-reaching strengthening through thorough analysis (kun-brtags-pa'i stobs) and (b) far-reaching strengthening through (stabilizing) meditation
The Ten Far-Reaching Attitudes in Theravada, Mahayana, and Bon 2005
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