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  • Underneath their egalitarian chatter was and to some degree still is a hidden, hungry admiration for and desire to be associated with the well-named and well-connected.

    Oh Wow! Peggy Noonan 2011

  • This was not, however, quite the emotion I felt a few weeks later half-way up the well-named High Side, a real cruncher of a hill that rises like some home-grown Mount Olympus from the unassuming market town of Settle, in the Yorkshire dales.

    Roller coaster: a cycle trip across northern England 2010

  • She was well-named Aphrodite, with those long black, tapering legs and rounded rump and lissom waist, and when she turned to face me, wriggling her torso-well, I've never looked at a pumpkin since without thinking: buffalo wallow.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • "It is well-named," Tanis said to Riverwind as they stood on deck, staring out into the red, murky water.

    Finnegan teoriza la practica de cuerdas Carlos G.Tonda 2010

  • She goes on and on, and I begin to see that this is not only the most beautiful and exotic creature in the history of this and every other universe, but also a well-named one or at least a multiple-named one.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • Rock critic Ken Tucker says the band's new album, called "The Big To-Do," is well-named.

    Making A 'Big To-Do' About Life's Important Things 2010

  • The cow parsley is a well-named plant, named several times over, and understandably so.

    Jolly brollies 2010

  • And she uses the traditional iambic meter only in later lines, such as “The Festival of Lights – well-named.”

    A Good Hanukkah Poem for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008

  • Rock critic Ken Tucker says the band's new album, called "The Big To-Do," is well-named.

    Making A 'Big To-Do' About Life's Important Things 2010

  • And she uses the traditional iambic meter only in later lines, such as “The Festival of Lights – well-named.”

    2008 December 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008

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