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  • But I'll get over it .. [ellip] In the past we would never get hate as Caps fans, they just kind of overlooked us.

    The Caps race car wins 2010

  • The planets now moved in ellip - tical orbits about a fixed sun at a common focus, their speeds varying in orbit in such a way that the line from the sun to a planet traces out equal areas in equal times.

    RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

  • A dog will distinguish between a circle and an ellip. se, for instance.

    The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963

  • Kadu, he said, soon after our departure, had married a handsome girl, the daughter or relation of the chief of Ormed; had been raised to the dignity of a Tamon-ellip, or great-commander, by Lamari; and having freely made over the half of his treasures to this personage,

    A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 Otto von Kotzebue 1816

  • Very useful content on your site, thanks. ellip ...

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Very useful content on your site, thanks. ellip ...

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

  • Very useful content on your site, thanks. ellip ...

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • JSpica radicali sessili obovata, foliis obovato-ellip - ticis cuspidatis.

    Transactions of the Linnean Society 1791

  • After its emergence the roughly globular mass contracts and becomes more ellip - tical, while cilia appear and slowly lengthen.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • a few cracks break the shadows of a mostly black room still black, pensive i'm scrutinizing every dark to find anything opposite when i see her torso briefly revealed - yellow ellip ...

    poem unfinished dudemanflab 2005

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  • To ellip; see ellipsis. (From Roy Peter Clark’s The Glamour of Grammar.)

    September 20, 2010