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  • Let me, at least, ask (and I unaffectedly hesitated) arnonth, Sir from this day And that you will acknowledge yourself not per-versely or weakly treated.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Some did have worms in their droppings, and these gave Stile a per - versely good feeling.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Some did have worms in their droppings, and these gave Stile a per - versely good feeling.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • The fact that an object can have many names (polynomy) and, con - versely, that the same name can be applied to several objects (homonymy) produced a confusion of names.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MIRCEA ELIADE 1968

  • Strasburger's error, the conception of the transverse division of the chromosomes, offered a seri - ous block to recognition that the elements of heredity might be linearly arranged within the chromosomes; for of course, if a chromosome really divided trans - versely, either its two parts would be genetically different, or else each chromosome could contain only

    GENETIC CONTINUITY BENTLEY GLASS 1968

  • Con - versely, if one starts out with an S2, say with an ideally smoothed-out surface of our earth, and removes one point, say the North Pole, then the remaining surface can be “spread out” topologically onto the E2.

    INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • C o n - versely, if the first shape is too small, students find that they must i n c l u d e m u c h that is of no interest to them in order to \ "fill out\" the format.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Hence, if the density of the medium vary in - versely as the distance, the body may describe the lo - garithmic spiral, whatever be the value of n; agreeable to what Sir I. Newton has proved in his Principia,

    The principles of fluxions : designed for the use of students in the university 1812

  • Acrimonious, impatient, overbearing, so far from wishing to conciliate, (I speak of his public deportment,) he made use of language so revolting, so per - versely unrestricted, that he often disobliged, nay made enemies even of those who acted in concert with him.

    Memoirs of the political and private life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont Hardy, Francis, 1751-1812 1812

  • - versely absurd 'tis to sound this name _Cowper_,

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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