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Examples
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I wish she had never seen that movie, "Girl with a Pearl Earing."
The Muse and the Marriage James Gurney 2009
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Earing did some excellent work with evoking a time and Vermeer's paintings so I'll choose that.
Feeling Listless - "Taking the credit for your second symphony." 2004
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Now for the manner of Earing or plowing this redde Sand, it differeth much from both the former soyles, insomuch that for your better vnderstanding, I must in many places alter my former methode, yet so little as may be, because I am loath to alter or clogge the memory of the Reader: wherefore to pursue my purpose.
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For to conclude briefely, these two soiles differ onely but in fatnesse and strength of nature, not in Earing, or plowing, so that the labours of tillage being equall there is not any alteration more then the true diligence of much manuring, which will bréede an affinitie or alyance betwixt both these soiles.
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For the manner of Earing thereof, it agréeth in all points with the redde Sand, the Ardors being all one, the Tempers,
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"Shall I cut?" shouted Earing from the main-rigging, whither he had leaped, like a tiger who had bounded on his prey.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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Extended to the utmost powers of endurance, by the vast weight it upheld, the lanyard struck by Earing no sooner parted, than each of its fellows snapped in succession, leaving the mast dependent on its wood for the support of all the ponderous and complicated hamper it upheld.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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"It is an awful night, Captain Wilder!" said Earing, presuming on his rank to be the first to speak.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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"Be cool!" said Wilder, seizing the bewildered Earing by the arm, as the latter rushed madly up the steep of the deck; "it is our duty to be calm; bring hither an axe."
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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The feeling that was uppermost betrayed itself in the reply of Earing, though in an indirect and covert manner.
Great Sea Stories Various 1897
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