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He did the donkey work and the dirty work, and sat back dismissively as his country, or rather its patrician rulers, disowned him.
She is smiling in a swimsuit, or rather laughing, and her eyes are alive with life.
In short, the great barons ran Germany, or rather, each baron ran his particular corner of it.
You will be assorted into four teams, or rather, have already been assorted into four teams.
I have had a slight feverish attack for the last few days, and I feel ill, or rather I feel low-spirited.
Like most successful entrepreneurs, Wallace was lucky, or rather he exploited his luck.
They depict the pharaoh, or rather the pharaoh's ka, in a striding pose and holding a mace in one hand and a long staff in the other.
Other than the enjoyment of staying with family, it was an interesting experience of tedium, or rather of low expectations.
It does indeed have scarlet flowers, or rather two swept-back, brilliant-red petals that reveal the purple inner petals of the bloom.
Minority issues or rather minority grievances are scattered all over the state.
Dimitri hopped off the spluttering bus and watched it drive, or rather screech away.
Her present proved to be a scroll of parchment, or rather several bundled together.
Barbarians, or rather some barbarians in the eyes of some Greeks, did not need images at all.
Cheap metadata is metadata made by someone else, or rather by many someone elses.
I maintain that I didn't learn how to write an essay, or rather how I should write an essay, until Michaelmas of this year.
I shook my head in disbelief, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I had to do something about my actions, or rather my lack of action.
Bartenders, or rather mixologists, are not hired from outside, but emerge from within the ranks.
Attired in their Sunday best, the little ones trooped in or rather made a dazzling entry on their mothers' arms.
As a first step, I closely examine the passage, its narrative strategies and the gaze, or rather gazes, that inform it.
Indeed, he asks, does the state expand in rational and sensible ways to meet real policy needs, or rather in response to fevered moral panics?
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Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments.
Television may have conveyed the impression that Diana's multitudinous mourners spoke, or rather sobbed, for the whole of Britain.
Here we have the heart of the fallacy, or rather an unknowing dissection of the fallacy by one of its authors.
That brings me to the peculiarity of the present case, or rather to two peculiarities.
Another topic to which Aristotle made major contributions was natural philosophy or rather physics by today's terminology.
This is something they themselves have admitted, or rather bragged about on countless occasions.
There's has been trouble at mill, or rather aggro in Quarry Row, between two of the offcumdens who have been in the Dale for nobbut two minutes.
Geekcorps is a nonprofit that takes Linux support, or rather education, to the doors of those who need it most.
And yet, upon careful examination we find a method, a system, in his orthography, or rather in his cacography.
Which is that this is a competition gone off at half-cock, or rather, two competitions misfiring in unison.
The red card debate, or rather lack of one, couldn't camouflage the austere dinginess that had preceded it.
Boxing, or rather a raw version of it with no gloves and hardly any rules, was part of the Ancient Games programme.
This gets lots of oohs and aahs, since most people have never seen, or rather never noticed, a double star before.
Jack sighed and walked or rather hobbled with us to the front door of his home.
We can confront them to a great extent on Christianist morality, or rather the lack of any.
The homes, or rather hovels, that they lived in would not now be considered fit for pigs.
Of course there are far more famous or rather infamous figures in the history of the last two centuries.
A recent post at A Snails's Eye View was about the conchology book Edgar Allan Poe wrote, or rather plagiarized.
On the whole, as Defranceschi explains, Paoli's idea of union was of a federal or rather confederal kind.
These are models that can be custom built as long as they conform to a specific rule, or rather, a formula of measurements.
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But we did not intend to go so fully into the religious, or rather, irreligious, character of Fourierism.
While slugs will ignore it, there may be a small problem with cuckoo spit, or rather the tiny green bug that is encased in the spit.
Then the chancellor raced to the podium and started talking, or rather gabbling.
Drechsler's boyfriend is also an athlete, or rather a former athlete, as the Frenchman Blondel has retired from the decathlon.
But look a little harder and a pattern emerges, or rather, a line of demarcation.
The characters, or rather their moulded images, are from the sketchbook, social grotesques masquerading as pillars of society.
Events, as elements of the discourse, or rather the pre-discourse, are irruptive and specific, and essentially discontinuous.
The distress signal was rigged to a hyperspace relay, so they know the colony is, or rather was, under attack.
He may be a chronographer, but a very imperfect or rather insipid historian.
We had a walk, or rather a brisk waddle, in the morning, then cold turkey and home-made chutney by the fire for lunch.
It quickly came in the form of a book on the subject, Girls Night In, or rather an article about the book.
He wants to speak to me tomorrow, or rather, as he put it, he wants me to speak to him.
At this time it is unclear as to whether the Walton Way was a salt way or rather the best route to a convenient crossing of the Trent.
The present Cabinet is really a rainbow coalition reflecting, or rather dictated by, the political reality at the time of selection.
Of course, the trick with good or great ingredients is knowing exactly what to do with them, or rather what not to do with them.
Modernisation is by no means overdone, or rather, when it is overdone, it is brazenly clever.
They don't really know me all that well, or rather they know the 19 year old me who moved out 11 years ago.
This is where the equality argument is faulty, or rather misrepresenting reality.
After some hedging and indecision, we decided, or rather chanced, to take a walk, it being a sunny October day.
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Rob employs two assistants at the shop, or rather they just started showing up every day and he didn't have the heart to tell them not to.
They were talking about football, or rather, one of them was, I don't think the other could get a word in.
Generally I don't like remakes, or rather, I don't like the idea of a remake.
I've never had to worry about tax before, or rather I've never bothered worrying about tax.
As has been said before, this is a joint problem for clubs and the union and it needs a joint solution, or rather solutions.
The religieux of the order were called, or rather they called themselves, Unitarians.
So after much weeping moaning and gnashing of teeth I was finally forced to suffer the indignity of sitting on Santa's lap or rather knee.
Before I allow you to start your repast, however, there is one more thing that I would like to say, or rather, do.
Had they taken the leash off, or rather the muzzle, two weeks ago, maybe the opinion polls might not consequently have been so cast-iron.
More accurately, he found himself unable to hear anything above the intense rage that clouded his mind, or rather, cleaned it to crystal clarity.
It is difficult to know whether inevitabilism is genuine support for the republic or rather amounts to a form of monarchism.
Merwin opts not to follow the terza rima strictly, or rather he rhymes so freely that he chooses not to speak of it.
I thought of nothing but a precipitate retreat with my household gods, or rather goods, if such a trumpery collection of individual property might be called so.
I just don't feel comfortable speaking, or rather trying to speak French.
I have often thought that your best bet, if you need intelligent, lapidary prose in a hurry, is to ask a poet to do it, even, or rather particularly, if it's about politics.
The scene is a gymkhana, or rather the parking lot for horseboxes, where the animals are brushed and groomed in preparation for events going on off screen.
You will come out of this, emerge from it, rise above it, and it may sound soupy to say so, but it just happens, or rather, we make such things happen.
Most recently I wrote about council housing, or rather the lack of it.
She was planning, or rather scheming, in her children's lives.
Today I have applied a blister to my stomach, or rather on my left side.
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It's only luck or rather serendipity, which makes them successful.
The path itself, or rather the portion of more solid ground on which the travellers half walked, half waded, was rough, broken, and in many places quaggy and unsound.
She had not fully realized his state of dress, or rather undress.
This kind of undisciplined thought, or rather feeling, that mistakes a wish for a fact and leads to foolish policy decisions corrodes the soul of modern man.
This is a take on the the blurring effect Japanese censors use to conceal genitals and penetration, or rather the resulting eroticization thereof.
They walk, of course, or rather amble about by and large, as sheep do.
The technology, or rather the people behind it, are getting smarter.
This was a routine exercise, or rather perhaps an exercise in routinism.
Lacan took up or rather transposed Freud's definition of hypnosis on this second degree level of dialectical reflection between the reciprocally engaged egos and ego ideals.
So, it's far better to go with the flow, or rather the crawl.
Funny how everything around you can unravel so quickly, unstitching the fabric of all you know, or rather of everything you thought you knew.
Clown. Indeed, sir, she was the sweet marjoram of the salad, or rather, the herb of grace.
There I met another German, or rather a Schleswiger, by the name of Bondiz, who was also a merchant.
In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment.
It was only a pile of skin and bones after all. An animal, or rather a bovial collapse.
The family was coming on. Only Morel remained unchanged, or rather, lapsed slowly.
Ina Goober, whom I admitted six times last year. A gomer, or rather, the feminine, gomere.
She heard her name called, or rather she saw it, since the words were blown away instantly. The marshman was summoning her.
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up in some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
Tulip bulbs became so expensive that they were treated as a form of currency, or rather, as futures.
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She feebly echoed, 'Of course,' or rather expressed it by the motion of her lips, and closed her eyes again.
Throughout history, slaves were clothed in a distinctive fashion, particularly with respect to footwear or rather the lack thereof.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
Those diners were left to guess, or rather to underguess by an average 600 calories per meal.
These are the two golden pipes, or rather conduits, wherethrough the olive branches empty themselves into the gold.
And the accents, or rather stress marks, that are such a feature of written Greek?
It is difficult to know whether inevitabilism is genuine support of the republic or rather amounts to a form of monarchism.
She was having a Deep-and-Meaningful with one of the Earlocks, or rather she was listening, as he was doing all the talking.
She's easy to mock because she's so uncool, or rather, unchilly.
After this, the vengeance on the whole camp! or rather, the bone-ache! for that, methinks, is the curse dependent on those that war for a placket.
Such perhaps was the aim of Nature, who does nothing without aim, in furnishing her favorite, Man, with this his so omnipotent or rather omnipatient Talent of being Gulled.
Recorded in 1995, 'Spaceman' had been hanging around unnoticed for a year when an ad agency knob-twiddler chanced upon it, or rather one very, very small part of it.
House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
Yorkshire people have their own Yorkshire dialects and accents and are, or rather were, known as Broad Yorkshire or Tykes, with its roots in Old English and Old Norse.
In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discolored to the hilt with blood.
In his sonic imagination, the notation indicates not that the syllable should be accentuated, but rather that it should be spoken, or rather sung in a parlando style.
Most of the residents know who the landlord or rather caretaker of the land is, and therefore, are sure this stranger is making up stories just to make a fast buck.
They soon found that the entire place was composed of the finest rock crystals, or rather it appeared to have been cut out of one gigantic crystal by some cyclopian lapidary.
However, the exile of Dom Antonio, the claimant to the Portuguese throne, gave an unexpected impetus to the resumption of the Guinea or rather the Senegambian slave trade.
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There are a set of religious, or rather moral, writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world.
Examples from Classical Literature
Pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions may or rather must recur in successive lines.
There bills for his diet show that he was staying between Christmas 1603 and Lady Day, 1604, or rather a few days later.
But it has another aspect, or rather another pole, for the opposition is diametric.
The great funeral ceremony, or rather death-dance, of the Western Islanders took place in the island of pulu.
Other naturalists, or rather other dreamers, made these insects spring from the calices of sweet-scented flowers.
It was obvious that he was tepidly in love with Maud, or rather that he was anxious she should be in love with him.
Epimenides himself was reborn in Scotus, or rather, Epimenides was Scotus's prototype.
When I left the pilot-house, Cape Canaveral, or rather the light on it, was in sight.
Metacarpal I oblong, or rather conical, with a lateral enlargement, and situated in line with the distal row of carpals.
His manhood, or rather his maleness, rose powerfully in him, in a sort of mastery.
This torques, chain, or rather wreath, is frequently alluded to by the early British bards.
From the beginning of the 4th century they began to die out in the West, or rather they fell a prey to manichaeism.
The road, or rather the very slight path, which he was following, ran through a maquis that had been lately burned.
She did not wish to ruin her sister unless in self-defence, or rather, for the cause of self-advancement.
I do not know how the dinner, or rather the after-hours of it, had lengthened.
During his captivity, Neufeld had with him an abyssinian girl, or rather woman.
James Naylor was a Quaker, noted for blasphemy, or rather madness, in the time of the protectorship.
The hook and ladder company followed and a meat wagon, or rather a meat-wagon horse, galloped after.
I shall begin with the Mouth, or rather the orifice in which the trophi or organs of manducation are inserted.
The lower part from a was filled with water tinged blue, or rather purple, with the juice of turnsole, or archil.
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The strings were struck with quills, and gave a thin, twangling, or rather twingling sound.
But white wives being difficult to obtain, mestiza maidens had generally to be accepted, or rather, taken in their stead.
However, the remedy in such cases, or rather the preventative is the proper dressing of the skins prior to the dyeing.
Afterwards as a modification, or rather a development, of the earth-mother, we have the goddesses of fertility.
There is a quotation, or rather a misquotation, from it in the Preface to Alastor.
It was directed against the village or rather the group of houses on the ridge known as the moulin de Pietre.
They were serious people in an unreligious way, or rather an unecclesiastical way.
The most rigorous propriety was the order of the day, or rather of the evening.
In many of the muscid they form nearly a semicircle, or rather, perhaps, the quadrant of a sphere.
The twopence was set aside for his funeral as it were, or rather for the rat-poison which would make the funeral necessary.
The lavas are curious from abounding in, or rather being in parts composed of pitchstone.
The manner of the production of souls, or rather their non-production is admirably well set down in Plotinus, See, ennead.
The new federalism or rather new Nationalism is not in any way inimical to democracy.
To the south of Lima, in the Bay of pisco, are found three small islands, or rather barren rocks.
A path, or rather a ledge cut along the perpendicular face of a rocky mass 200 feet high, led from the chief temple to our vihara.
To this dance, or rather to these postures of a bayadre, succeeded the excitement of vingt-et-un, followed by well-earned repose.
Much had been effected by the use, or rather abuse, of the terms federalist and anti-federalist, federalism and anti-federalism.
Surely the legitimate province of 'personalism' lies in the region of general ideas, or rather in the Weltanschauung as a whole.
Fortune, or rather the well-wishing wits of friends below, gave Larry a few precious moments more than he had counted on.
These are the two golden pipes, or rather conduits, wherethrough the olivebranches empty themselves into the gold.
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Her education and work, or rather method of work, had wrought out for her anemia and epileptiform attacks.
Madame Tastu was also a translator, or rather a paraphraser, and an author of original poems of a sentimental kind.
A bibliography of such references would be in effect a bibliography of metaphysics, or rather of epistemology.
The matter of business between you and myself, or rather my client, is this.
The sky, or rather the cloud layer, dominated the atmosphere with its weird pinkness.
But it is now time to state, or rather faintly to adumbrate, the grand assumption of this singular work.
Between the apsis and the nave stood the altar, or rather the common table, canopied by a baldachin supported by columns.
A phonograph, or rather a graphophone, had been left on a table by the cage.
What shall I say, or rather not say, of the cheerfulness and agreeableness of her humor?
He had theories as to hilling potatoes, or rather as to not hilling them until the ground could be drawn round the haulm wet.
That night, or rather in the early hours of the following morning, a horseman came spurring up to the head gate of Colchester.
Siddhartha ate his own bread, or rather they both ate other people's bread, all people's bread.
What mysterious enemy pursued him, or rather pursued the monarchy like a hellhound?
It can develop vacuoles, or rather fine bubbles of carbonic acid gas in its cytoplasm, to float up to the surface of the water.
It is a stepping-stone from villainage to socage, or rather to socman's tenure.
There will also be an ecliptic new moon that is in conjunction with a solar eclipse, or rather with a terrestrial eclipse.
They therefore affect a Quakerly plainness, or rather a cynical negligence and impurity, of style.
The thought of crime now becomes a sort of obsession or rather an autosuggestion.
A new layer of wood, or rather of alburnum, is added annually to the tree in every part just under the bark.
Then arose the question, who should bell the cat, or rather, who should lead the cat to the belling.
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I was dressed and lived as a gentleman, or rather I should say respectably.
As little, or rather less, am I able to coerce the people at large, who behaved very unwisely and intemperately on that occasion.
There are many kinds of ixora, all stove shrubs, and all conspicuous for their large heads or rather corymbs of showy flowers.
On traversing the shore, we discovered a morai, or rather a heap of bones.
Close by these stables rushed a torrent, or rather a river, the alpheus.
It was Antisthenes who founded this school, or rather this order.
What however went first of all or rather vanished was nothing in the nature of an asset.
To this genus, or rather to the family of the Waders, its skeleton shows that it is really related.
This house yields to its landlord over two hundred a year, or rather more than the rent of a commodious mansion in South Kensington.
They are to be married soon, or rather sooner, for I rather suspect that we shall receive announcements almost any day.
Everybody remarked the majesty of Jos and the knowing way in which he sipped, or rather sucked, the Johannisberger, which he ordered for dinner.
The mantle, or rather the ragged cloak, of old Matthew Maule had fallen upon his children.
That makes no difference since it exists in my desires, or rather exists as long as my desires exist.
The first picture is a full length of Aurelia Koslow, a German fraulein, or rather a half-breed between German and Russian.
He was like a soldierly automaton, or rather, like a magnificent marionette.
The landscape seemed to have spoken, and now was silent, returning to its gloom, or rather to the soft sad tones of an autumnal twilight.
No one saw them, or rather her, for I asked only after Miss Denham.
The holydays are made a jubilee, or rather resemble the Saturnalia.
And do you know he is an Old Believer, or rather a dissenter?
The sale, or rather the distribution of tickets was kept very private.
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The oil obtained from the dugong is, or rather was, very valuable.
The reason, or rather reasons, for my enthusiasm I will now enumerate.
An equinoctial gale was raging, or rather had been raging all day.
He made a fine art of it, or rather a sort of craft and mystery.
On the left is a fricassee of snails, fed, or rather purged, with milk.
You are a gamester, or rather, you have it in your disposition.
Then we walked home with some, or rather many, stoppages to rest, and with our hearts full of a constant dread of wild bulls.
Davandai, a kind of double drum, or rather a double darabouka, Hindustan.
It is true that the city was destroyed, or rather, buried, but this catastrophe was probably brought about by an earthquake.
All this talk about Shakespeare had acted as a soporific, or rather as an incantation upon Katharine.
It was Monday evening,' I replied, 'and this is Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, at present.
The fault was only one of phrasing, or rather of incompleteness.
You are, or rather your kinsman Peter, is still in the wood.
The venerable face was bearded, or rather whiskered, in the old, heavy Colonel Newcome fashion.
It was a long litigation, or rather a series of litigations.
I lost no time in dismounting to terra firma, or rather the floor.
And mag seemed as well content to wait, or rather more so than he was.
Moreover, a hesitation in speaking, or rather a tendency to use the wrong words, made her seem more than normally incompetent for her years.
Well, these stars, or rather corpuscles, only shine when they are heated by gliding over the atmospheric layers.
And, indeed, the little note and pin upon the table confirmed, or rather corroborated, the sad truth.
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Instead of that, he undid it, or rather permitted it to be undone.
Music, dancing, and a recitation or two were the entertainments furnished, or rather, offered.
These horsemen were our friends, or rather, an avant garde, composed of D'Artagnan and Athos.
It was the optophone, and perhaps you may have seen, or rather heard it.
For all that, it was a wild boar, or rather a boar ran wild.
His philosophy was Platonic, or rather the bent of his mind was Platonic.
But for Harriet's sake, or rather for my own, and as there are no husbands and wives in the case at present, I will break my resolution now.
It seemed a dream, or rather the re-enactment of an old scene.
What I outline here is a national, or rather international, system for the providing of the material needs of men.
In this glen is the rock garden, or rather the main part of it.
Each leaf is an indrawn breath as red as a pomegranate, or rather the colour of pomegranates, which is not exactly red.
For rightly every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring or rather terminating my own soul.
Casaubon, or rather from the symphony of hopeful dreams, admiring trust, and passionate self devotion which that learned gentleman had set playing in her soul.
Next, there was an account of the ancient home of the Alardyces, or rather, of spring in Suffolk, which was very beautifully written, although not essential to the story.
I did my best in the small time allowed me to make some thing like a man, or rather I should say something like a boy, of the poor creature, Ransome.
This sort of contempt for eminences, or rather dread of the labor of ascending them, might have been termed the besetting weakness of the warfare of the period.
Now, Mrs Nickleby was not the sort of person to be told anything in a hurry, or rather to comprehend anything of peculiar delicacy or importance on a short notice.
Not far from this village, perhaps about two miles, there is a little valley or rather lap of land among high hills, which is one of the quietest places in the whole world.
At length they came to a small cove, or rather indent of the shore.
Milady looked at him for some time with an expression which the young man took for doubt, but which, however, was nothing but observation, or rather the wish to fascinate.
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Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed Saturday night, or rather Sunday morning, in peddling his head around this town?
From the ground-floor of this house came a noise, or rather a confusion of voices, like the chirping of young birds when the brood is just hatched under the down.
In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
You wonder where he can have gotten them or rather you would wonder, if the excitement of being in his presence left you time to think of such things.
After their departure, taking place in inverted order to their arrival, the canvas cloth was cleared, or rather was restored to some hurried order by the pallid steward.
She had been a little bewildered upon rising, or rather, descending from her cushions, and Monsieur Ratignolle gallantly took her arm and led her away.
I thought it was you, or rather your fur coat, as you passed me.
