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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
lyric .
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These are like lyr files that contain the data too.
James Fee GIS Blog 2009
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And Tom Wolfe's experimentally::::: punctuated, day-glowingly huemorous, sa-tir-ically lyr-i-cal The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which Rama had recently assigned, was making me want to view the world through the sharp, detached eye of the narrator.
Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult Mark Eliot Laxer
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Rather than re-create a story based on the lyr-ics,
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The happieft you of all that e'er were mad, lyr Or are, or Iball be, could this folly laft.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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•ft nil nrictibed that die coca -. ions have been cxeu. dmij, lyr. av.,., t:
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As to the colonies, they had no alternative - left to them, but to difobey; or to pay the taxes ii»pofed lyr that parliament which 'jvas not fyffcred, or did not fufFer itfelf, even to hear them. remonftrate upon tl\e fubjea. ",
memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798
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His look is very well exprefled! — - For a firft fitting, "truly I think the Portrait is lyr-t prifing. —
The Theatre of Education.: Translated from the French of the Countess de Genlis. In Four Volumes ... 1781
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