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  • Because I have developed serious pet allergys I am considering these dogs for thier hypallernic trates.

    Training Your Dog to Track Wounded Deer 2009

  • Because I have developed serious pet allergys I am considering these dogs for thier hypallernic trates.

    Training Your Dog to Track Wounded Deer 2009

  • The potential value of MLIS technology to South Africa lies in the direction of the value that can be added to uranium ore concen - trates exports as well as income that can be generated through the potential international licensing of the technology.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Although an act, including the ritual act, often illus - trates and makes concrete the meaning of a myth, it is also true that a myth is sometimes grafted on an act or a gesture which is no longer understood; the myth serves as a commentary or explanation which

    MYTH IN ANTIQUITY PIERRE-MAXIME SCHUHL 1968

  • Even by the beginning of the Peloponnesian war shouting was still the ordi - nary method of the assembly for the election of magis - trates and for the voting on formal proposals (which might involve peace and war).

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

  • Ficino (Walker [1958], pp. 7-10), has immediate effect on the spirits, because moving air, the vehicle of sound, strikes directly the innate air in the ear, which is or has in it aerial spirit, and sets up a motion that pene - trates to the innermost parts.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

  • Another experience with fruit in Lawrence illus - trates the ideas of my mother and the character of the training she gave her children.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • The triumvir, Power, has under him all the magis - trates of arms, of artillery, of cavalry, of foot-soldiers, of archi - tects, and of strategists; and the masters and many of the most excellent workmen obey the magistrates, the men of each art paying allegiance to their respective chiefs.

    City of the Sun 1901

  • The women also are taught these arts under their own magis - trates and mistresses, so that they may be able if need be to render assistance to the males in battles near the city.

    City of the Sun 1901

  • Freman he'm a gipsy sort of a feller; and he've never forgiven Mr. Strangway for spakin 'to' im about the way he trates 'is' orses.

    A Bit O' Love John Galsworthy 1900

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