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He had also been a reckonable tennis and squash player; at school, though not having an especially large or powerful physique, he had set a shot-putting record which stood for many years.
Translation 2010
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He had also been a reckonable tennis and squash player; at school, though not having an especially large or powerful physique, he had set a shot-putting record which stood for many years.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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He had also been a reckonable tennis and squash player; at school, though not having an especially large or powerful physique, he had set a shot-putting record which stood for many years.
On Douglas Parmée 2009
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Turns out, I can buy myself 9 years of reckonable service.
Ker-ching « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007
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On the one hand, the great books abide in a state of more-or-less permanence, granite outcrops left exposed by a glacial recession, un-reckonable by fashion or whim; on the other hand, they are modesty in its rawest form, a record of serial failure in the face of loss and death.
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On the one hand, the great books abide in a state of more-or-less permanence, granite outcrops left exposed by a glacial recession, un-reckonable by fashion or whim; on the other hand, they are modesty in its rawest form, a record of serial failure in the face of loss and death.
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You, a young new race amply equipped for any emergency within reckonable time, will be able to do so.
Children of the Lens Smith, E. E. 1954
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If he chose to take his rifle and go seeking venison, if he elected to sit by his fire reading a book, the cedars fell, their brown trunks were sawn and split, the bolts came sliding down the chute in reckonable, profitable quantities, to the gain of himself and his men.
The Hidden Places Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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An asset, besides, of reckonable value in cold cash.
Burned Bridges Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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He had nothing of the martyr; into no dark region to slay monsters for us, did he, either led or driven, venture down: his conquests were for his own behoof mainly, conquests over common market-labour, and reckonable in good metallic coin of the realm.
Paras. 1-24 1909
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