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  • Harry turned a page of Quintessence, aware that Ron was watching him.†  (source)
  • He was the quintessential back-country Yankee, grunting instead of talking, sullen-faced.†  (source)
  • He has behaved like the quintessential ugly Afghan-American, Idris thinks.†  (source)
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  • This facade is a blend of early Gothic and late Romanesque, making this the quintessential Norman castle and placing it in England at about the twelfth century.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • She did not just seem difficult—in his eyes she was the very quintessence of difficult.†  (source)
  • They were quintessentially Southern, and she remembered seeing many of these rustic scenes on her journey through North Carolina.†  (source)
  • Colleen's job was to find a "quintessential South Florida household" and photograph it top to bottom—the bookshelves, the refrigerator magnets, the closets, you name it—to help the directors bring realism to the film.†  (source)
  • It seemed the quintessence of the squareness he was fighting.†  (source)
  • She loved being surprised, coming to realize that in many ways Syria was a quintessentially Mediterranean country, connected to the sea and in love with food and new ideas and reflecting the influence of Greece, Italy, so many cultures.†  (source)
  • They are also the quintessential supporters of the Taliban.†  (source)
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