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- noun Plural form of
motif .
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Both dies have identical Heraldic Eagle motifs from a hub punch that still existed after its earlier use for the silver dollars made in 1801, 1802, and 1803.
CLASSIC RARITIES: Adams-Carter 1804 Class III Silver Dollar : Coin Collecting News 2009
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Certain motifs begin to gestate a picture in the mind as you gradually learn through half-remembered, diaphanous glimpses that Mars and the moon have been colonised; dispossessed astronauts wander the Earth; drugs are rampant; and technological virtuality is encoded into the very fabric of everyday life.
Ballardian » Review: Jeremy Reed’s West End Survival Kit 2010
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The realm-seam relationship as I'm positing it is an abstraction of some of Clute's motifs from the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FANTASY, a paring away of some of the specificities and valuations.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The realm-seam relationship as I'm positing it is an abstraction of some of Clute's motifs from the ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FANTASY, a paring away of some of the specificities and valuations.
Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008
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In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats.
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In the book Mažuranić created a series of new fairy-tales, but using names and motifs from the Slavic mythology of Croats.
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When the institute was actually built, the façade was simpler with less ornamentation and pure lines, just a simple arch above the entrance and plain motifs above the windows.
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Certain motifs that tie people together show up throughout the book.
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Certain motifs that tie people together show up throughout the book.
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Certain motifs that tie people together show up throughout the book.
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