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Father Ibrahim Ayyad 1910-2005 was a kindly-looking old gentleman, dressed in the black robes of a Benedictine priest.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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Father Ibrahim Ayyad 1910-2005 was a kindly-looking old gentleman, dressed in the black robes of a Benedictine priest.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010
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In addition to changing the language and religion of the state, the new ruling class -- described in online literature as "a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors" -- also announced that the new state icon would be known as Yesmenite Sam, a kindly-looking figure who strikes a pose that is intended to elicit sacrifice and unquestioning obedience to the law that is being made up "as we go" by the incipient rulers.
Randall Amster: Broken News: 'Yes Men' Purchase Yemen, Rename It 'Yesmen' 2009
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But last night I saw a slightly different form of terrorism during the one panel I attended: during the Q&A a kindly-looking grey-haired man in the audience attacked every single member of the panel two of whom were graduate students, one a second-year assistant professor with very long, very hostile criticisms that weren't really questions.
Archive 2007-12-01 Flavia 2007
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But last night I saw a slightly different form of terrorism during the one panel I attended: during the Q&A a kindly-looking grey-haired man in the audience attacked every single member of the panel two of whom were graduate students, one a second-year assistant professor with very long, very hostile criticisms that weren't really questions.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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Then when Simon himself appeared, he turned into another older, kindly-looking man who was a stranger to me but whom Simon seemed to know well.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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Then when Simon himself appeared, he turned into another older, kindly-looking man who was a stranger to me but whom Simon seemed to know well.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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Then when Simon himself appeared, he turned into another older, kindly-looking man who was a stranger to me but whom Simon seemed to know well.
My Demon's Kiss Lucy Blue 2005
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As our fellow-travelers quitted us at one station and another we were finally left alone with the kindly-looking old man who had seemed interested in us from the first, and who now made some advances in broken English.
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They were not people of fashion, as we readily perceived, but kindly-looking mercantile folk, and ladies painted as white as newly calcimined house walls; and all gravely polite.
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