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The kiss was deep and allencompassing, and she surrendered to it, gripping him tight.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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The tiredness he'd felt, walking with Sarah on the hills above the bay nearly a week ago, had grown to an allencompassing sense of exhaustion.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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The tiredness he'd felt, walking with Sarah on the hills above the bay nearly a week ago, had grown to an allencompassing sense of exhaustion.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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This reason has obviously succeeded in spreading doubt about its allencompassing claim, about what I have called its arrogance, and in retaining experience in and memory of what
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If you haven't read it, "The Evolution of God" by Wright is a pretty comprehensive discussion about the heritage of the Book-religions and how they came to be allencompassing from a moral perspective (something that is a fairly new invention - even newer than Jesus it seems like).
Armed and Dangerous esr 2010
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A thrilling new adaptation of Emily Bronte's haunting classic, Wuthering Heights retells the story of the allencompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
BrontëBlog 2008
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A thrilling new adaptation of Emily Bronte's haunting classic, Wuthering Heights retells the story of the allencompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
BrontëBlog 2008
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