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  • The Americans and their allies—the armies of Rome, in the lexicon of ISIS— had to be poked and prodded and stirred into a rage.†  (source)
  • He had been a sailor and a sinner (two terms that were synonymous in Momma's lexicon), a great blasphemer, a laugher in the face of the Almighty.†  (source)
  • Mortally: after all, it's tough work fagging away at a language with no master but a lexicon.†  (source)
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  • "A stunning blow from the big Greek lexicon, which an old fellow in a black gown fired at him," said Ned.†  (source)
  • All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopaedic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world.†  (source)
  • She speaks the hard-edged lexicon of bygone tourists itchy to throw dice on green felt or asphalt.†  (source)
  • But the revolutions round the table became more and more irregular in their sweep, till at last reaching Mr. Stelling's reading stand, they sent it thundering down with its heavy lexicons to the floor.†  (source)
  • In Jason Bourne's lexicon these were weapons, especially the money.†  (source)
  • There were words prohibited by military decree, such as the word "companero," and others that could not be mentioned even though no edict had swept them from the lexicon, such as "freedom,"†  (source)
  • If I were to make a record of all Sabina and Franz's conversations, I could compile a long lexicon of their misunderstandings.†  (source)
  • The greatest of all sins in his administrative lexicon was for someone far beneath him in rank to catapult over a series of links in the sacred chain to confront him or even worse, unspeakably, to present a complaint to the school board.†  (source)
  • Ever threatening at the margin of her consciousness were the shape and shadow, the apparition of the camp—the very name of which she had all but rejected from her private lexicon, and seldom used or thought of, and which she knew she could allow to trespass upon memory only at the danger of her losing—which is to say taking—her life.†  (source)
  • The Four Kingdoms of Blys, Jakarun, Zenuvia, and Dun had not only entered the lexicon, but had been woven into the fabric of daily life.†  (source)
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