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After having his car damaged by an ill-calculated overtaking manoeuvre by Marc Gené in the Peugeot he managed a creditable fourth having been laps down in his R15 – the car's final race view the gallery from the race here.
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Then, realising that I dared not run back to him, because my ill-calculated steps might carry me over the edge, he came shuffling towards me, with his hands held out before him.
First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006
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Deceived by my nearest Relations, compelled to embrace a profession the duties of which I am ill-calculated to perform, conscious of the sanctity of those duties, and seduced into violating them by One whom I least suspected of perfidy, I am now obliged by circumstances to chuse between death and perjury.
The Monk 2004
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Tomb, and the objects of mortality which met her eyes on either side, were ill-calculated to inspire her with those emotions by which the Friar was agitated.
The Monk 2004
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She was like an inexperienced gunner, who has ill-calculated the length of the train that he has laid.
Barchester Towers 2004
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The perusal of this story was ill-calculated to dispel
The Monk 2004
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Now She assumed a sort of courage and manliness in her manners and discourse but ill-calculated to please him.
The Monk 2004
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The Objects now before his eyes, and which the full Moon sailing through clouds permitted him to examine, were ill-calculated to inspire that calm, of which
The Monk 2004
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The thrust was nervous and ill-calculated, and the next instant the skiff had blundered under the bows of the launch.
Uncanny Tales Various
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A sense of injustice is ill-calculated to bring about that harmony which is so necessary among all the members of an educational institution, professors and students alike.
Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose
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