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  • About half an hour into the exercise, Agent May notified the class of a 'titious automobile accident about a mile from the bank.

    The Big Bad Wolf Patterson, James, 1947- 2003

  • Excrementaceous - titious: made up of or resembling excrement.

    Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith

  • Judicial sur - prise being an emotion that attorneys are not com - monly ambitious to arouse, the motion was hastily withdrawn and an agreement with the other side effected as to what Mr. Deemer would have said if he had been there -- the other side pushing its advantage to the extreme and making the supposi - titious testimony distinctly damaging to the interests of its proponents.

    Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

  • After her death these MSS. were bought back by Lady Bute; and were scarcely safe in England, before a surrep - titious publication of them in three volumes appeared, of which it since ap - pears that the Editor was Mr. Cleland.

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • So that, although natural and adven - titious rights differ in the sources from which they are derived, there should be no difference in the powers which they bestow.

    The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ... 1812

  • Some outlets for the manufactured goods become closed, or are no longer efficient; the number of manufactories diminishes, and this fac - titious population, in consequence, soon disap - pears.

    The Situation of Great Britain, in the Year 1811 Maurice Montgaillard , comte de Maurice Montgaillard 1812

  • With refpecl to Orichalcum, it is generally fuppofed that there were two forts of it, one fac - titious, the other natural; the faftitious, whe - ther we confider its qualities or compofition, appears to have been the fame with our brafs.

    Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 1785

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    Romance Readers and Romance Writers: a Satirical Novel 1810

  • " We had to investigate a 'titious bank robbery in Hogan's Alley, including interviews with witnesses and tellers.

    The Big Bad Wolf Patterson, James, 1947- 2003

  • Thus whe) 4.3 (n) 0.3 (the) 4.3 (fic) 4.3 (titious Miss)] TJ

    Honoria Sommerville 1789

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