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  • Illus trating that, a gauge of the dollar's broad trends fell Friday to its lowest level in eight months.

    Currency Traders on Edge Over Yen Andrew Monahan 2010

  • So the people, after breaking my furniture and ill-trating two or three dumb beasts, which happened not to have been made away with, went away, and in the dead of night I returned to the house, where I found my son, who had just crawled home covered wit bruises.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • They recalled that, when one of them had suggested in a Newsweek column 8 January 1973 that for these reasons the FDA should be abolished, the column had evoked letters from persons in pharmaceutical work offer-ing tales of woe to confirm the allegation that the FDA was frus-trating drug development.

    Barking cats Richard 2004

  • Next to him, Kira was giving Vaughn a rather pene-trating gaze.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • Fire lances burned in faint glimmerings through the haze, pene - trating the darkness with killing quickness.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • The self-proclaimed Brother Truth spoke of the sins of some unnamed man in some unnamed community, and one of the brothers ran forward, stripping off his robes so that he was clothed only in a white loincloth, and pros - trating himself on the ground before De'Unnero.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • The self-proclaimed Brother Truth spoke of the sins of some unnamed man in some unnamed community, and one of the brothers ran forward, stripping off his robes so that he was clothed only in a white loincloth, and pros - trating himself on the ground before De'Unnero.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • It was an Elf of medium height and build, plain looking and plainly dressed, with a steady, pene - trating gaze.

    The Elf Queen of Shannara Brooks, Terry 1992

  • At this, Elric shivered and put his mind to concen - trating, searching his memory until a manlike figure formed before him.

    Elric At The End of Time Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1984

  • There was a frown on the Red One's dark face; she seemed to be concen - trating on their opponent just as fiercely as ever.

    True Names Vinge, Vernor 1984

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