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  • adjective being two more than twenty
  • noun the cardinal number that is the sum of twenty-one and one

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  • Even a male star is referred to with the feminine article: la star of the film Titanic, for example, being the incomparable Leonardo DiCaprio.xxii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Even a male star is referred to with the feminine article: la star of the film Titanic, for example, being the incomparable Leonardo DiCaprio.xxii

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Number three is to a passage in chapter xxii of his great novel Robbery Under Arms (1882 – 83), by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonymn of Thomas Alexander Browne (1826 – 1915): There was a fence round this garden, some of the rails lying there rotten enough, but it takes time for sound wood to rot.

    Manavalums 2009

  • Number three is to a passage in chapter xxii of his great novel Robbery Under Arms (1882 – 83), by Rolf Boldrewood, the pseudonymn of Thomas Alexander Browne (1826 – 1915): There was a fence round this garden, some of the rails lying there rotten enough, but it takes time for sound wood to rot.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • Not surprisingly, numerous studies have actually shown that Keys 'theory was wrong and saturated fats are healthy, including these studies from Fallon and Enig's classic article The Skinny on Fats: [xxii]

    Dr. Joseph Mercola: The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health 2010

  • Not surprisingly, numerous studies have actually shown that Keys 'theory was wrong and saturated fats are healthy, including these studies from Fallon and Enig's classic article The Skinny on Fats: [xxii]

    The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health 2010

  • When compared with much of historical Christianity we find that within historical Judaism women have been much more powerfully constrained to occupy one and only one position entirely, namely that of wife and mother (Boyarin 1997, xxii – xxiii and passim).

    Sex. 2009

  • Ambrose says she is incorrupt, a virgin immune through grace from every stain of sin Sermo xxii in Ps. cxviii;

    Archive 2009-08-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • Ambrose says she is incorrupt, a virgin immune through grace from every stain of sin Sermo xxii in Ps. cxviii;

    The Purity of Mary elena maria vidal 2009

  • A Jewish feminist method must “mirror the fluid boundaries that exist among theology, halakhah and ethics, liturgy, and textual exegesis,” drawing on the materials of tradition and at the same time challenging gender injustice (1998, xix, xxii-xxiii).

    Feminist Theology. 2009

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