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  • The Dems make a ceal, then it gets changed in committee.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Twice in the early morning, when the campfires behind had settled to ashes and the road before him lay at its darkest, he had slipped behind tents to con-ceal himself from a passing squadron of the Istarian Guard.

    The Dark Queen Williams, Michael, 1952 Dec. 17- 1994

  • The camera served Tereza as both a mechanical eye through which to observe Tomas's mistress and a veil by which to con-ceal her face from her.

    The Unbearable Lightness of Being Kundera, Milan, 1929- 1984

  • She had tried to con - ceal it, but his reaction to this combat had made him more perceptive to physical condition.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

  • She had tried to con - ceal it, but his reaction to this combat had made him more perceptive to physical condition.

    Juxtaposition Anthony, Piers 1982

  • It was as though a being of another sphere should assume what it might of human semblance, but was not able to con-ceal that what human eyes saw was but a part of it.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • It is more fun to make a Plato than to make his philosophy, and at the same time to be skillful enough to con ceal our creatorship, knowing that the condition of producing another and greater Plato is to let him have the inflation of supposing he produced himself.

    The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers 1918

  • -- There is great ability in knowing how to con - ceal one's ability.

    Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Fran��ois duc de La Rochefoucauld 1646

  • Bhál sin buaille mór ar son saoirse na hÉireann, cá bhfios má dhéantar iarracht mór sean go gcuirfear an Nollaig féin ar ceal?

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

  • Bhál sin buaille mór ar son saoirse na hÉireann, cá bhfios má dhéantar iarracht mór sean go gcuirfear an Nollaig féin ar ceal?

    Slugger O'Toole 2009

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