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Examples
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Thus, many contem-porary readers have never had access to those "least popular tales" listed in Table Three.
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I dare own to your ladyship, that once I doubted it, on a supposition that they were given us for tem-porary purposes only.
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Recovering from his tem-porary paralysis, the young soldier he had spared had reported in.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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Re-gardless of origin, it had clearly been turned into tem-porary living quarters.
The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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