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  • Had a nice time but the day was long got home at midnight & had to take total of 4 n.g. during the evening.

    Going Home to Glory David Eisenhower 2010

  • Muzquizopteryx coahuilensis n.g., n. sp., a nyctosaurid pterosaur with soft tissue preservation from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) of northeast Mexico (Coahuila).

    Christmas cards Darren Naish 2006

  • When they use their phone data collection results against war protestors and other dissidents, will the n.g. be called out?

    Think Progress » Hagel on Bush Immigration Plan: ‘That’s Not The Role of Our National Guard’ 2006

  • So today I'm catching up on the n.g., but I'm doing it in a way that might entertain you.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Anne Johnson 2007

  • So today I'm catching up on the n.g., but I'm doing it in a way that might entertain you.

    Multi-Entry Blogging: Something for Everyone! Anne Johnson 2007

  • It is all very good, you know, to send in one or two little jags from a new man, but the house kicks and thinks you are n.g. if you keep on piking with the same man.

    Tales of the Road

  • For instance M'Auley's down there: n.g. as position.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • CHOEROCYDNUS, n.g. Head broad, in front somewhat truncated; ocelli wanting; antennae five-jointed, second joint longest, third, fourth and fifth, somewhat thickened and nearly equal; beak reaching to base of last pair of legs, if not beyond; third joint the longest; thorax in front notched for reception of head, not so wide as the body; scutellum long and pointed, the line separating it from hemelytra very indistinct; hemelytra without

    Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855

  • Then at an appointed day all the men n.g. t.d. and c. begin gradually, secretly, cannily, to buy up in all those places all the lac-dye or something of the kind that you and I thought there was about thirty pounds of in creation.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • This is an operation: You send forth a man not given to drink and consequently chatter to Amsterdam, another not given to drink and chatter to New Orleans, another n.g. t.d. and c. to Bordeaux, Cadiz,

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

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