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  • In distant ages, global temperatures swung violently between uninhabitably cold and warmer than now.

    Lesson in climate-change science Maxine 2007

  • Because you know, what I really wanted to spend my Wednesday night doing was not going to see a movie but rather it was mopping, vacuuming, and sterilizing an entire house that was made nigh uninhabitably dirty by people other than myself, and may be the original cause for my infestation!

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: June 24, 2004 Archives 2004

  • Because you know, what I really wanted to spend my Wednesday night doing was not going to see a movie but rather it was mopping, vacuuming, and sterilizing an entire house that was made nigh uninhabitably dirty by people other than myself, and may be the original cause for my infestation!

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: The Advantages of Leprosy 2004

  • Because you know, what I really wanted to spend my Wednesday night doing was not going to see a movie but rather it was mopping, vacuuming, and sterilizing an entire house that was made nigh uninhabitably dirty by people other than myself, and may be the original cause for my infestation!

    Musings of a Drunken Monk: June 2004 Archives 2004

  • He wore only his one-piece undersuit, on a world uninhabitably hot.

    A World Out of Time Niven, Larry 1976

  • Then Mira would stretch herself a little, move about restlessly and Sthor and Asthor would become uninhabitably hot, anywhere within twenty degrees of the equator.

    The Ultimate Weapon John Wood Campbell 1940

  • In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major's cottage.

    Armadale Wilkie Collins 1856

  • Still, if you've somehow managed to escape the deadly void of space or the plasmifying interior of a star or the crushing singularity of a black hole; if you've avoided the molten core of the earth or being frozen in the Arctic or Antarctic or drowned in the ocean or parched in the desert or massacred or starved or buried alive; if you've somehow - in a universe the vast majority of which is uninhabitably hostile to human life - come to inhabit one of the habitable regions in this thin skin we call "the biosphere," this tiny, frail, bubble-membrane of viability in the infinite cosmic waste of unfeeling deadliness - and you have access to a good fish market, I urge you to try your hand at making these delightful treats.

    Jeff Dorchen: Recipe: Skate Wing Cakes with Caveats 2008

  • In sheer horror of his own uninhabitably solitary house, he rang for his hat and umbrella, and resolved to take refuge in the major’s cottage.

    Armadale 2003

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