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  • But Mr. Fish was the quintessential neighbor; he was all neighbors—all dog owners, all the friendly faces from familiar backyards, all the hands on your shoulders at your mother's funeral.†  (source)
  • Along with picking handcuffs, vaulting Jersey barriers, and fending off perverts, it is one of the quintessential Kourier skills: walking around in a place where you don't belong without attracting suspicion.†  (source)
  • I soon learned that on Everest not even the rope-the quintessential climber's accoutrement was to be utilized in the time-honored manner.†  (source)
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  • These stories were viewed as quintessential—as defining, in some way—and every family member, including Stem's three-year-old, had heard them told and retold and embroidered and conjectured upon any number of times.†  (source)
  • Harry turned a page of Quintessence, aware that Ron was watching him.†  (source)
  • He passed the exit for a town with the quintessentially Americansounding name of Gainesville.†  (source)
  • The languor of Youth—how unique and quintessential it is!†  (source)
  • He knew what would happen if he drank this spice drug with its quintessence of the substance that brought the change onto him.†  (source)
  • She's so quintessentially practical that most people would never guess she has a thing for angels.†  (source)
  • He was the quintessential back-country Yankee, grunting instead of talking, sullen-faced.†  (source)
  • It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.†  (source)
  • They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.†  (source)
  • It's the quintessential Toronto middle-class-matron put-down, the ultimate disapproval.†  (source)
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