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  • I had a family member who took a nice doe with one shot but she was in paral and we asked him to put her down but he would not pull the trigger.

    The Pernicious Lure Of The One-Shot Kill 2006

  • Parel: The area derives the name from a tree called paral or padal trumpet flower tree which used to grow abundantly in this area.

    Mumbai names 2 Abodh 2006

  • Parel: The area derives the name from a tree called paral or padal trumpet flower tree which used to grow abundantly in this area.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Abodh 2006

  • She backed up several paces, then said, "Sorry about this, " and slapped a spell of paral-ysis on him just as a clamor of metal signaled that Madoc had come with his guards.

    The Chrome Borne Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • So Corroboc and I paral - leled your progress through this bloated emporium of useless goods, he flying above to check periodically on your position, until you kindly located the object of the quest for me.

    The Day of the Dissonance Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • It was a paral - lel system, used as a relief-valve for the frustrations of the undertrodden.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Doubtless enough has been said about the conflicting approaches; but a final word may revert to the paral - lelism of economic theory with the science of me - chanics, where the abstraction and unrealism are greater, but their necessity and usefulness are not questioned.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • For the Church Fathers Pythagorean beliefs were acceptable as long as biblical parallels could be found for them; and for notions of cosmic harmony there were, as scholars like Philo discovered, plenty of paral - lels.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JAMES HAAR 1968

  • Sea Scrolls, affords an interesting contemporary paral - lel.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas S. G. F. BRANDON 1968

  • But certain texts of the New Testament, such as Matthew 19 and its paral - lels, condemned riches, though even these texts did nothing more than advocate an extreme form of charity.

    PRIMITIVISM GEORGE BOAS 1968

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