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maverick
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    It gives their guard something to do when they're not out annihilating mavericks.†  (source)
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    We try to divide up the mavericks as near as possible.†  (source)
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    Men of other regiments came to visit the Mavericks.†  (source)
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    Marko sensed that in it there was room to grow, and saw that many aspiring naval cadets were like himself, if not mavericks then as close to mavericks as was possible in a society so closely controlled as his own.†  (source)
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    The Mavericks went visiting on their own account.†  (source)
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    The Mavericks had a reputation for liveliness to live up to.†  (source)
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    It was the band of the Mavericks playing the regiment to camp; for the men were route-marching with their baggage.†  (source)
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    The half-caste woman who looked after him (she smoked opium, and pretended to keep a second-hand furniture shop by the square where the cheap cabs wait) told the missionaries that she was Kim's mother's sister; but his mother had been nursemaid in a Colonel's family and had married Kimball O'Hara, a young colour-sergeant of the Mavericks, an Irish regiment.†  (source)
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    It was no more than an ordinary camp marking-flag; but the regiment, always punctilious in matters of millinery, had charged it with the regimental device, the Red Bull, which is the crest of the Mavericks—the great Red Bull on a background of Irish green.†  (source)
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    The Mavericks were incurable practical jokers; and it occurred to the Englishman that silence was best till he had made complete inquiry.†  (source)
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    Very early in the morning the white tents came down and disappeared as the Mavericks took a side-road to Umballa.†  (source)
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    At evening there came out to meet them bands of music, and played the Mavericks into camp near Umballa railway station.†  (source)
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    Colonel Creighton, who had succeeded to the trusteeship when Father Victor went to England with the Mavericks, was hardly the Chaplain's brother.†  (source)
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    "I'm surprised you even knew how to get out here, Maverick."  (source)
    Maverick = a person's name
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    Maybe it was because Baba had been such an unusual Afghan father, a liberal who had lived by his own rules, a maverick who had disregarded or embraced societal customs as he had seen fit.†  (source)
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    Although Mama had been a teacher at Great Faith for fourteen years, ever since she had graduated from the Crandon Teacher Training School at nineteen, she was still considered by many of the other teachers as a disrupting maverick.†  (source)
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    "All right, guys, load up," my mother cheerily yelled as she threw in one final bag and slammed shut the trunk of our lime green Ford Maverick.†  (source)
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    Miraculously, Oskar Schindler, this complex man of many contradictions—Nazi opportunist, schemer, courageous maverick, rescuer, hero—had saved nearly 1,200 Jews from almost certain death.†  (source)
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    And this morning you're going to tell us how we can hold onto that maverick Russian sub?†  (source)
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    It was all about how the U.S. ought to take better charge of the maverick Congo; the two photographs stopped my heart.†  (source)
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    There was great affection between them all, but she was the maverick.†  (source)
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    He had the canny self-assurance of an industry maverick, the outsider who tries to roil the works, japing every complacent rule of belief.†  (source)
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    In Eric's memory, Vivaldo always put one foot down lightly, like a distrustful colt, ready, at any moment, to break and run; but now he stood where he stood, the ground bore him, and his startled, sniffing, maverick quality was gone.†  (source)
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    In the years since the Jack in the Box outbreak, David Theno has emerged as a fast food maverick, applauded by consumer groups and considered "the Antichrist," he says, by many in the meatpacking industry.†  (source)
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    KEVIN KELLY is senior maverick at Wired, the magazine he helped launch in 1993.†  (source)
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    Not to mention that it's out and out creepy that Fifi, the maverick, is so changed.†  (source)
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