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  • Despite this debacle, it is evident that the Wedge still envisions Baylor as a base for in-telligent design.

    Bradley and Beckwith on Baylor 2005

  • She had done what an in - telligent woman would do for the man she loved.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • She had done what an in - telligent woman would do for the man she loved.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Two examples are damned poor statistics, but does this mean that all in - telligent life-forms are oxygen eaters?

    Rendezvous With Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • Two examples are damned poor statistics, but does this mean that all in - telligent life-forms are oxygen eaters?

    Rendezvous with Rama Clarke, Arthur C. 1973

  • What had happened to bring a four - footed, small rat to the size of the erect-standing, in - telligent Ration?

    Breed to Come Norton, Andre 1972

  • -- A BRIGHT, HONEST, IN - telligent boy: good Christian; A No. 1 writer; quick at figures, not fond of play; never reads novels or smokes, or sets

    The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

  • Knighton had proved quick, in telligent, and resourceful, and he had a distinct charm of manner.

    TheMysteryOfTheBlueTrail Christie, Agatha 1928

  • [Page 238] telligent and cultured guides, not losing ourselves in vain discourse, but illustrating briefly and concisely the work of art in which the traveller shows himself interested, and we should then respectfully allow him to observe it as long as he wishes to.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • At the same time it ex - tended itself to north and south, joining small patches of mist that appeared to come out of the mountain-side on exactly the same level, with an in - telligent design to be absorbed.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

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