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I am sure he will have already formulated some thoughts, if not a policy document, setting-out his vision.
A man with a plan 2008
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South – East of the South – East Watcher, and of which I have made no telling hitherto, in this faulty setting-out, I heard for the first time in that life, the calling of the Voice.
The Night Land 2007
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Can you not, Lucy,. gather from the setting-out of this story, and the short account of it given by Sir Charles in the library-conference, that I shall soon pay my duty to you all in Northamptonshire?
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Magnus, distinguished by his smart outfit and grey hair, was setting up his elaborate diopter while more junior staff had to settle for the basic gro ma Some were responsible for raising twenty-foot-high marked posts that helped in taking levels, while others were awkwardly deploying a huge set square to mark a right angle for the initial setting-out of the intersection of the two wings of the new palace.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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He realised his setting-out string was what had strangled Pomponius.
A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001
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I should like to emphasise the importance of the setting-out work necessary for brush-drawing.
The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed
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This was by no means an easy thing to do; for Laura, at twenty, though an orphan, without a penny to buy even so much as a dozen teaspoons for a setting-out, was not a girl that would have been apt to lack for lovers, if she had had a fair chance to get them.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various
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On the morning of Baldassare's setting-out for the Mantuan road, La
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett
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Jones were talking about it; and they all say that there would be the best setting-out got for her that was ever seen in Newport, if it should happen.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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I will give you a setting-out such as no one has ever given you before!
Armenian Literature Anonymous
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