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- verb Present participle of
salute .
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Examples
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The guides have gotten together in saluting Kirk Deeter if the Maizeland Blue go down in flames this week and will present you with a congratulatory dozen flies – THE COFFIN FLY!!!
Pigskin Picks - Part Deux Tim Romano 2007
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Sceptic with Childe Harold 4 when both make a late turn to elegy in saluting Princess Charlotte. [
'A darkling plain': Hemans, Byron and _The Sceptic; A Poem_ 2001
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"Thank you kindly, sir," replied Long John, again saluting.
Aargh? Roger Sutton 2009
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I start down the stairs and at the top she gives me the German farewell, hailing his name and saluting.
Tours of the Black Clock Steve Erickson 2008
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Manners are more or less connected with morals, and we had lectures on manners; that is to say, on saluting, which is the beginning and ending of good manners in the army.
A Padre in France George A. Birmingham 1907
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Treasury of the Quinquinambo Confederate States to Don Miguel Briones, in payment of certain stores and provisions, and of a piece of ordnance known as the saluting cannon of the Presidio of Todos Santos.
The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte 1869
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BTW, in re: the world's tackiest statuary: Why in the FUCK is that draft-dodging military-industrial-complex WHORE "saluting"?!?!?!?
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Opponents discount this support as just the brass "saluting" and following orders.
Joe Cirincione: GOP Senators Swing Back to Military, Boost New START Prospects Joe Cirincione 2010
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Furthermore, far from "saluting" Madame Gilot, students of Picasso are incensed with her, not just because she give a false picture of a great man but because she is so misleading about his and her political views and the crucial (to Madame Gilot's book) matter of their mutual "peccadilloes."
Life with Picasso Lake, Carlton 1965
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Common tokens of friendship are those signs which are current among people of the same condition of life; such as saluting, answering
Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
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