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  • They called him Napoleon behind his back and occasionally to his face but did it with af-fection and respect: Gillespie was such a dedicated commander that his radioman had to keep pulling him down behind cover during firefights.

    'War' 2010

  • PB2K plz be bery keerful wiht inger…unjir..owies, ai felled in febarary an getted a MRSA fection.

    White mouse… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • An sayin prers to CC, an showin fection wif hed bonks, purrs an leg rubz?

    teh often-overlooked - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The advantages of person are her least per-fection.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • And pictures, which, even in an anatomical point of view, are per – fection.

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • After twenty-three years of intense research into the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), together with the accumulated experience of more than twenty million deaths from the in-fection worldwide, there is still no prospect of a vaccine to prevent AIDS.

    AIDS: The Elusive Vaccine Horton, Richard 2004

  • Then, turning to one of those, eminently practical questions that indicate the survival of a mutual af — f fection:

    The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

  • It looked like an airy Arabian Nights con-fection of blue and gold ... except Eddie had an idea that the blue was stolen from the sky and the gold from the newly risen sun.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • Most puzzling was the near per-fection of the circle.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Louisa, for whom Jerry has little or no af\-\expndtw-5 fection, kept insisting he was drunk and to leave him alone. \expndtw-4 By Sunday evening Conway'd passed into a coma.

    Never Come Down Black, Michelle 1996

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