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  • The equipment stuck into these multifarious pockets tends to be small, tricky, lightweight pens, markers, penlights, penknives, lock picks, bar-code scanners, flares, screwdrivers, Liquid Knuckles, bundy stunners, and lightsticks.†  (source)
  • Of all her multifarious descendants, Calpurnia took most pride in Frank.†  (source)
  • He was the pillar of its support on the floor of Congress, its ablest advocate and defender against the multifarious assaults encountered.†  (source)
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  • Calming down, he abandoned McGuire finally and let his animus spread out and embrace in a general way all the multifarious sins and failings of the North: its arrogance, its hypocritical claim to moral superiority.†  (source)
  • And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat.†  (source)
  • " And also, "I don't ask you to take me for your model either," too well realizing the contradiction, that I knew about his multifarious swindles.†  (source)
  • The day was like gold and sapphires: there was a swift flash and sparkle, intangible and multifarious, like sunlight on roughened water, all over the land.†  (source)
  • Vergil Gunch thundered, "When we manage to grab this celebrated Thespian off his lovely aggregation of beautiful actresses—and I got to admit I butted right into his dressing-room and told him how the Boosters appreciated the high-class artistic performance he's giving us—and don't forget that the treasurer of the Dodsworth is a Booster and will appreciate our patronage—and when on top of that we yank Hizzonor out of his multifarious duties at City Hall, then I feel we've done ourselves proud, and Mr. Prout will now say a few words about the problems and duties—" By rising vote the Boosters decided which was the handsomest and which the ugliest guest, and to each of them was given a bunch of†  (source)
  • And before I get involved in the multifarious details of my new position, I should like to have secured my partner.†  (source)
  • It was soon piled up with my uncle's multifarious preparations.†  (source)
  • Others will follow, others will outstrip me on the same lines; and I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.†  (source)
  • But during these earlier days of my stay they broke the Law only furtively and after dark; in the daylight there was a general atmosphere of respect for its multifarious prohibitions.†  (source)
  • And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.†  (source)
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