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Such a poem was intended to display deep love and fortitude, with control and resignation mimetically conveyed by lucid, balanced syntax uncontorted by demands of rhyme or metre (11).
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993
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Now, the intrusion of a definite, uncontorted memory was evidence of returning cerebral activity.
Dope Sax Rohmer 1921
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Latterly he had seen only Life, felt only the great passionate pulse of existence, unwarped, uncontorted, untrammelled by those creeds which futilely attempt to check what wisdom would be content to regulate.
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Latterly he had seen only Life, felt only the great passionate pulse of existence, unwarped, uncontorted, untrammelled by those creeds which futilely attempt to check what wisdom would be content to regulate.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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Locke’s most natural and uncontorted references to the the property in such works is either the beginning of the political elevation of intellectual property inappropriately or the appropriate understanding that inclosure became relevant to intellectual property as technology allowed others into your intellectual yard.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Copyright as a Government Program 2009
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