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Several scenes have a strange delicacy, as if the artist were timid of his awesome subject, such as the hazy mountainscapes of Anthony Devis half-brother of the portrait painter, which rise softly behind a sketchy foreground, where horsemen ride and woodcutters stack logs.
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Portraits by Joshua Reynolds and Joseph Wright show clear-eyed Augustans full of Johnsonian sense, exquisite manners and grace, while the landed gentry's painter of choice, Arthur Devis, painted married couples at home in charmingly naïve fashion.
Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011
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In the Golden and Silver ages, the Devas and Devis of the higher realms were regularly seen on Bhumi.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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In the Golden and Silver ages, the Devas and Devis of the higher realms were regularly seen on Bhumi.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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In the Golden and Silver ages, the Devas and Devis of the higher realms were regularly seen on Bhumi.
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar Jeffrey Armstrong 2010
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[11] _Advis et Devis des difformes Reformateurz_, pp. 149-151.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various
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Devis as Devis was no loss, but alive and talking he'd have helped us pin both the wax fire and the bombing of the _Javelin_ on Steve Ravick.
Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934
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For one thing, Devis always has more money to spend than his share of the _Javelin_ take would justify.
Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934
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He found out what Devis did on the _Javelin_, and that gave him the idea that whatever the sabotage was, it would be something to the engines.
Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934
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He spent the next twenty or so hours following that up, and heard about your man Devis straining his back.
Four-Day Planet H. Beam Piper 1934
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