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remembered apparently on the word firstrate applied similarly.
"I think Barack took 10 times as much grief from those on the left on the Review as from those of us on the right." Ann Althouse 2008
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"Daddy, this Quatermain byes down under DC and he's a firstrate guide,"
Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010
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Every one of these individuals is firstrate and pro-Israel and advocates for the Jewish People. just Louise
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Luckily our firstrate legal minds at Emptywheel and CHS can step into the gap when they get a moment.
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Every one of these individuals is firstrate and pro-Israel and advocates for the Jewish People. just Louise
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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"Vs." is an absolutely firstrate rock-and-roll album: streamlined, propulsive and full of urgency.
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But what amounts to an extraordinary coincidence is mediocre people liking firstrate things.
"I think Barack took 10 times as much grief from those on the left on the Review as from those of us on the right." Ann Althouse 2008
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Lacedaemon as a sacred inviolable territory, which they do not touch with the point of their foot; but they make a circuit of the neighbouring states, and would rather exhibit to any others than to the Spartans; and particularly to those who would themselves acknowledge that they are by no means firstrate in the arts of war.
Laches, or Courage 2006
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Ballymunites, Raheniacs and the bettlers of Clontarf, for to contemplate in manifest and pay their firstrate duties before the both of him, twelve stone a side, with their Thieve le Rou ‚! and their
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The only reason they didn't go the way of Commodore and Amiga was because their machines and operating system were - and are - firstrate.
From On High 2005
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