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  • Thus, many contem-porary readers have never had access to those "least popular tales" listed in Table Three.

    A Bibliographical Essay 2007

  • I dare own to your ladyship, that once I doubted it, on a supposition that they were given us for tem-porary purposes only.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Recovering from his tem-porary paralysis, the young soldier he had spared had reported in.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Re-gardless of origin, it had clearly been turned into tem-porary living quarters.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Alan Dean Foster has written in a variety of genres, including hard science fiction, fantasy, horror, detective, western, historical, and contem-porary fiction.

    The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

  • Francis saw the disappointment, even anger, flash across his face-particularly in his gray eyes-more than once, but he was clearly a man in control of his emotions, and the dark cloud was but a tem - porary thing.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Francis saw the disappointment, even anger, flash across his face-particularly in his gray eyes-more than once, but he was clearly a man in control of his emotions, and the dark cloud was but a tem - porary thing.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • If that put him on the side of the Amplitur, it was only tem-porary and coincidental ... wasn't it?

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • They tell me/General Early said as he dismounted at Clay's tem - porary headquarters, 'that Fm about to set forth on an undertakin' of some magnitude, and I would feel more secure if I could have as one of my adjutants a man like you. '

    Mexico Michener, James 1992

  • I didn't like to think that I was usurp - ing any of my mother's duties, even on a tem - porary basis, but we might be in need of every length of clean linen ever woven in the Hold.

    Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986

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