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- adjective Obsolete form of
Hyrcanian .
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CEPF is targeting its investments on a set of thematic and geographic priorities, the latter of which include a subset of Key Biodiversity Areas (among the 205 KBAs defined for the region by WWF-Caucasus in collaboration with the BirdLife partnership) and five different conservation corridors: Greater Caucasus, Caspian, West Lesser Caucasus, East Lesser Caucasus, and Hyrcan.
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Adelphi by the Brothers Bratislavoff (Hyrcan and Haristobulus), after humpteen dumpteen revivals.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Hyrcan tiger; take any shape but that and my firm nerves she'll be in the woods the first you know! stop the starboard! come ahead strong on the larboard! back the starboard! ...
Is Shakespeare Dead? 1909
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One of them is most remarkable, viz., the conversion of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcan by the apostle James.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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Macbeth's 'Hyrcan tiger' (III.iv. 101), who also occurs in _3 Hen.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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The 'Hyrcan tiger' of _Macbeth_ III.iv. 101, which is also alluded to in _Hamlet_, appears first in _3 Henry VI.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast, 'with' the rugged Russian bear ... or the Hyrcan tiger '(_Macbeth_, III.iv. 100);' like a neutral to his will and matter 'with _Macbeth_, I.v. 47.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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Hyrcan tiger; take any ship but that and my firm nerves she'll be in the WOODS the first you know! stop he starboard! come ahead strong on the larboard! back the starboard! ...
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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Hyrcan tiger; take any shape but that and my firm nerves she'll be in the _woods_ the first you know! stop the starboard! come ahead strong on the larboard! back the starboard! ...
Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography Mark Twain 1872
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"General, it is as if a Russian bear or Hyrcan tiger had stolen a hawk's beak, and wore it at the end of his snout!"
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