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  • "Yes?" she asked in a pretty irony; "well, then, of co'se, sisteh or no sisteh, you muz 'instan'ly go!"

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • Biarpun polisi bertindak untuk memberantas obat-obat palsu, DVD bajakan, atau bahkan sampai merambah ke dunia maya dengan menangkap para plagiarist artikel, tetap saja ga akan efektif selama di otak orang-orang yang hidup di negara ini hanya cara instan saja yang terpikirkan.

    Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Battle over Intellectual Property Rights 2009

  • Realita di lapangan memang menunjukkan kalau orang-orang di Indonesia ga menghargai karya yang dibuat oleh orang lain, mungkin karena miskin kreatifitas atau memang pengen maju dengan cara yang instan.

    Global Voices in English » Indonesia: Battle over Intellectual Property Rights 2009

  • Hampir semua ilmuwan yang fokus di bidang biologi molekuler bahkanproduk KIT sebuah produk bahan kimia instan untuk keperluan biologi molekuler yang dijual di pabrikjuga pada dasarnya menggunakan buku Molecular Cloning ini sebagai acuannya.

    Molecular Cloning, Kitab Biologi Molekuler – Netsains.Com 2010

  • In his instantaneous infatuation, and perhaps not so instan - taneous, for it had been kindled by the preparatory legends of old Urszula, he quite forgot that the more important Roman Lubonski was also looking for a wife and that Roman had been as deeply affected as he.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • He multiplies this by the con - stant value m of the mass, thus introducing the instan - taneous quantity of motion m · v (t), which is again a function in the variable t.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • In an age when communications satellites make us instan taneous spectators of your great events, and when that same Anglo-French co-operation which forged your own nation bids fair to make a mockery of distances in the air -- in that age, we can begin to think of the Atlantic as truly an inland sea.

    A Northern Ireland Point of View 1964

  • Absence (though Shame would let me hardly behold thy Face) but exceedingly aggravated, for that I cannot (as I ought) to thy own self reconcile my self, that thou mightest witness my inward Wo at this instan Green, _and may grow strait, if he be carefully tended; otherwise apt enough (I fear me) to follow his Fathers Folly.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

  • The latter retired in the most undisguised mortification; his rival moving to the head of the set with all the grace and ease of self-possession, rank, and consciousness of right in the present instan [illegible] e.

    The Cavaliers of Virginia, or the Recluse of Jamestown. An Historical Romance of the Old Dominion. By the author of "The Kentuckian in New-York." In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1834

  • There is also a number of places where the pure suphor is sent forth in abundance one of our men Visited one of those wilst taking his recreation there at an instan the earth began a tremendous trembling and he with dificulty made his escape when an explosion took place resembling that of thunder.

    Daniel Potts Letter 3 1827

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