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Animadversion seeps from his dark, crackling lips; falling in chunks and collecting in small bitter pools about his feet.
Europa 2009
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From the same Principle I was glad to see some Animadversion on the late inconsistent Conduct of the Ministers of this Town.
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+ (4) "An Epistle to the Author of Animadversion on Fiat Lux" (1664);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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English -- Animadversion on the improper conduct of irrational British youths.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
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These things fall under a Province you have partly pursued already, and therefore demand your Animadversion, for the regulating so Noble an Entertainment as that of the Stage.
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Enormity, which I shall here submit to your Animadversion.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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These things fall under a Province you have partly pursued already, and therefore demand your Animadversion, for the regulating so Noble an Entertainment as that of the Stage.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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[100] A farther Animadversion against imitating Instruments with the
Opinioni de' cantori antichi e moderni. English Pier Francesco Tosi 1692
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