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  • And across it, across this road, ten paces from me, in the golden light of the dazzling summer sunshine, a whole family of sparrows hopped one after another, hopped saucily, drolly, self-reliantly!

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • And how do they, or how did they respond to this desire on your part and your wife's part to — for them to think a little bit more self-reliantly?

    Oral History Interview with Stan Hyatt, November 30, 2000. Interview K-0249. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 2000

  • Him, the active hand, the ready tongue, the foot swift and willing in his cause, the service of labour, the service of suffering, -- all these, if I offer them rightly and reliantly, are acceptable unto God by Jesus

    The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Knowles King

  • It was reliantly dim, as is that pulse of life which is heard through and above the crash of generations and centuries falling downwards into the abyss; that persistent, enduring heart-beat, indifferent in its mystical regularity, that ignores and triumphs, and never grows louder nor diminishes, inexorably calm, inexorably steady, undefeated -- more -- utterly unaffected by unnumbered millions of tragedies and deaths.

    The Garden of Allah Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual.

    The Greylock Georg Ebers 1867

  • The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • The poor mother was doubly anxious because he seemed so unconscious of the risk he ran up there and looked about him even more boldly and self-reliantly than usual.

    The Complete Short Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • And across it, across this road, ten paces from me, in the golden light of the dazzling summer sunshine, a whole family of sparrows hopped one after another, hopped saucily, drolly, self-reliantly!

    Dream Tales and Prose Poems Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • Now, five healthy second generation South China tigers have been living self-reliantly at Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, including two cubs from Tigress Madonna who coached them into excellent hunters.

    Mongabay.com News Rhett Butler 2010

  • Now, five healthy second generation South China tigers have been living self-reliantly at Laohu Valley Reserve in South Africa, including two cubs from Tigress Madonna who coached them into excellent hunters.

    Mongabay.com News Rhett Butler 2010

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