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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubfamily Lotinae —burbot .
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Examples
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Result; -- at five, Jennings, coming to call Lota, found her with all the dolls in a row before her teaching them hymns.
Nine Little Goslings Susan Coolidge 1870
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"Lady Bird" Nursey called Lota, because when, six years before, Papa fetched her home from China, she wore a speckled frock of orange-red and black, very much the color of those other tiny frocks in which the real lady-birds fly about in summer-time.
Nine Little Goslings Susan Coolidge 1870
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Lota got her rifle and got him with the first shot.
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Before long he married the critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and Bishop went off to live with Lota de Macedo Soares in Brazil.
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Before long he married the critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and Bishop went off to live with Lota de Macedo Soares in Brazil.
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She arrived in Santos, Brazil in November of that year expecting to stay two weeks, but remained fifteen years, during which time she had a long-term relationship with Lota de Macedo Soares, a female architect and socialite and a descendant of prominent political family.
Poetry and Jazz, Strange Bedmates, Sated at Last Con Chapman 2011
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Lota got her rifle and got him with the first shot.
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Before long he married the critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and Bishop went off to live with Lota de Macedo Soares in Brazil.
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The others won, but in honor of Lsai, who helped them realize their own humanity and ability to think for themselves, they named their race the Lsai and settled on the planet, Lota Anath.
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Lota got her rifle and got him with the first shot.
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