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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Eurylaimidae.

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  • A result of Gide's revolt was the unprecedented freedom with which he wrote about sexual matters in Corydon (privately published 1911, public version 1924), his autobiography Si le grain ne meurt (1924) [If It Die ...], and Gide's lifelong diary Journal 1889 à 1939 (1939), Journal

    André Gide - Biography 1947

  • Today I find myself sitting in Bar Italia, one of several cafés on a strip of road called Corydon Ave. It's the place to be here in Winnipeg during the summertime and so I sit here, caught between people-watching and pensive typing on my laptop which I've nicknamed Electrohyperion or E.H. for short.

    Is the falcon or hawk a symbol of Vanth? 2008

  • The first book was called Corydon and the Island of Monsters; the second is Corydon and the Fall of Atlantis.

    Atlantis Journal: More theories and the Countdown to New Atlantis Michael May 2008

  • Today I find myself sitting in Bar Italia, one of several cafés on a strip of road called Corydon Ave. It's the place to be here in Winnipeg during the summertime and so I sit here, caught between people-watching and pensive typing on my laptop which I've nicknamed Electrohyperion or E.H. for short.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • The Tribune, New Albany's almost-daily newspaper, its sister parent? paper The Evening News, and the chronicle that calls Corydon home, The Democrat, are the only reliable sources for keeping our micro-communities attached.

    If You Don't Read the Tribune Randy Smith 2005

  • The Tribune, New Albany's almost-daily newspaper, its sister parent? paper The Evening News, and the chronicle that calls Corydon home, The Democrat, are the only reliable sources for keeping our micro-communities attached.

    Archive 2005-04-10 Randy Smith 2005

  • Burnside, 36, is currently CEO of Wayne County Hospital in Corydon, which is located in southern Iowa near the Missouri border.

    Times Republican 2010

  • Burnside, 36, is currently CEO of Wayne County Hospital in Corydon, which is located in southern Iowa near the Missouri border.

    Times Republican 2010

  • The authors of "Corydon" did have their own tendencies towards silliness in this book, of course.

    Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • Instead, I came into "Corydon" without any taint of expectation and found it to be a delightful and truly engrossing read.

    Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006

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