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Among the Russian words learned by the midshipmen were all words connected with roads.
Jack Archer 1867
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Nicholas Basbanes wrote in Among the Gently Mad (p. 138), “To excel [at book collecting], you have to be willing to bring something to the table, and by that I do not mean a stack of chips to underwrite your action as a player, I mean your imagination, your intelligence, your eagerness to explore and learn, your willingness to improvise and to innovate in areas others might consider a waste of precious time.”
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Nicholas Basbanes wrote in Among the Gently Mad (p. 138), “To excel [at book collecting], you have to be willing to bring something to the table, and by that I do not mean a stack of chips to underwrite your action as a player, I mean your imagination, your intelligence, your eagerness to explore and learn, your willingness to improvise and to innovate in areas others might consider a waste of precious time.”
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Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.
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Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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Among all the French words my daughter has taught me, rosace may be the least useful in speech (not like the ever-groovy, ever-utterable chiche* that she taught me a while back) but I can say that I am now seeing rosace patterns everywhere.
French Word-A-Day: 2006
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He collected his impressions in "Among the Believers," an Atlantic article later expanded into a famously controversial book that established his reputation as one of Islam's harshest critics.
Iran on the Brink 2002
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He collected his impressions in "Among the Believers," an Atlantic article later expanded into a famously controversial book that established his reputation as one of Islam's harshest critics.
Iran on the Brink 2002
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He That Is Without Sin Among You, Let Him First Cast a Stone
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A Tentative Nickname Among the 4,264 occurrences we found of news sources referring to the Players Championship as the "fifth major," here are some of the most common hedge words and phrases that accompanied the mention of the event's nickname.
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