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Examples
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So the estimable seed of Kumi, eight centuries before, had entered into the aliis of Lakanaii, and been passed down by them in the undeviating line to reposit in
SHIN-BONES 2010
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The devil will be glad for my coming, for I have some very fine songs for him, and scandals and old gossips of the high aliis that will make him scratch his sides.
THE WATER BABY 2010
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So that Prince Squid could scarcely be the dignified title of the straight descendant of the oldest and highest aliis
SHIN-BONES 2010
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The devil will be glad for my coming, for I have some very fine songs for him, and scandals and old gossips of the high aliis that will make him scratch his sides.
The Water Baby 2010
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He must be faithful to her, yet more faithful must he be to all the dead and gone aliis of her line who depended solely on him that their bones should not be disturbed.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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For he was old, and most likely of the aliis to be dead.
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But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport.
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This is a secret of the aliis that even the aliis do not know.
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All my long years have the aliis I was born under thought for me.
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I said I didn't care a whoop for the bones of all the aliis of my family and race.
SHIN-BONES 2010
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