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  • Senator Kennedy still uses the fine ENIGMA machine aboard U-235 to compose his speeches, and he often takes the U-235 on clandestine "missions" down to fabled Atlantis, where he is a welcomed and celebrated regular at the nonpariel Atlantean houses of prostitution.

    Mayor Bloomberg, Buy Those Handguns 2007

  • Evidently my English teacher, Mrs. Rose, had taken my little paper so deeply into the cockles of her heart that she not only accorded it with the aforementioned nonpariel gradation, but she impressed its shining example upon her fellow instructors, several of whom sought me out that day in the groves of academe to tender their heartiest congratulations.

    Archive 2008-01-27 2008

  • Evidently my English teacher, Mrs. Rose, had taken my little paper so deeply into the cockles of her heart that she not only accorded it with the aforementioned nonpariel gradation, but she impressed its shining example upon her fellow instructors, several of whom sought me out that day in the groves of academe to tender their heartiest congratulations.

    A Bigger Box o' Fields 2008

  • They were prolly the best thing on radio, perhaps ever, and their albums were nonpariel in their creative anarchy - many of the albums had conversations started on one and finished on another.

    They Were Collaborators #397 2007

  • Poor Senesino, like a vanquished giant, was forced to confess upon his knees that Anastasia was a nonpariel of virtue and beauty.

    Lady Mary Wortley Montague Melville, Lewis 1925

  • -- Have a good heart, Sid, cried my brother, if my nonpariel likes you, when he sees you (I felt myself hurt, and grow red) and without a compliment, sister (seeing me look mortified) I think he will, fortune will be no objection.

    Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph 1767

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