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  • Being musically inclined, I'm always searching for that coda and that V-I candence.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

  • *heavy sigh* I hear you -- literary or not, I suspect I put too much emphasis on the candence without considering how it reads cold -- appreciate the boot or is that stiletto? in the butt, Miss S.

    Snarklings vs the Snarkometer, Round 26 Miss Snark 2005

  • having been a properly raised Irish RC girl in an earlier life, I could not resist “et cum spiritu tuo” in gregorian candence our workmates used to run when the latin started!

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: An Invitation to De-Lurk 2006

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