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Refugees relate how they have heard people speak of this semi-mythical figure in illegal coffee shops of Hampstead and the underground drinking houses of Islington.
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It dates back to Gondwanaland, the semi-mythical "first continent," whose outlines were long discernible only to the imaginative who perceived in Africa's west coast and South America's east a near fit.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Two semi-mythical characters dominate her grandfather's reminiscences, stories flecked with macabre humor that sound at times like Balkan versions of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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The top wicket-taker in India's recent series in the West Indies, he looked unplayable at times during his second-innings 4-59 at Lord's, calling to mind his devastating spell to Australian captain Ricky Ponting in the 2008 Perth Test, which has already assumed semi-mythical status and is duly spoken about in awed whispers by cricket fans.
English Bowlers Show India's Weak Spot Richard Lord 2011
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Then we're back in the semi-mythical Big Nothin', where Solstice broke and sent its pale light across the Big Nothin' bogs.
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It dates back to Gondwanaland, the semi-mythical "first continent," whose outlines were long discernible only to the imaginative who perceived in Africa's west coast and South America's east a near fit.
Richard Bangs: The Pakistan Osama bin Laden Never Knew, Part 2 Richard Bangs 2011
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Two semi-mythical characters dominate her grandfather's reminiscences, stories flecked with macabre humor that sound at times like Balkan versions of Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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The closest thing he had to a central issue was that he was a deficit hawk, which may have appealed to the semi-mythical “fiscal conservative” wing of the GOP, but I think Reagan probably lost a lot of those anyway.
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What emerges from most of these images, which Könnemann has chosen not to display chronologically or even thematically, is the sense that Blackpool is a place forever in thrall to its own semi-mythical past.
Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera – review 2011
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The first element is devotion to Padmasambhava, the semi-mythical founder of the Nying-ma tradition.
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II) 2010
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