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Mercury in retrograde and the moon was high!† (source)
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He's talking about retrograde motions and elliptical orbits or something.† (source)
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Spedling's brief notes hypothesized that the humans were survivors of a missing seedship colony from three centuries earlier and clearly described a group suffering all of the classic retrograde cultural effects of extreme isolation, inbreeding, and overadaptation.† (source)
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To his brother Jack he would write, "I am wearied almost to death with the retrograde motions of things."† (source)
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But most of the rotational velocity was expended by material which is now in retrograde solar orbit.† (source)
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"You done knocked up mah precious baby again!" he boohooed in female plaint, his voice a heavenly facsimile—down to the perfect shading of falsetto—of that of some weak-witted and godforsaken wife and victim, blighted by wedlock, history and retrograde genes.† (source)
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He was the light-blinded bat-like image of his own torment cast by the fierce demoniac lantern up from beneath the earth's crust and hence in retrograde, reverse; from abysmal and chaotic dark to eternal and abysmal dark completing his descending (do you mark the gradation) ellipsis, clinging, trying to cling with vain unsubstantial hands to what be hoped would hold him, save him, arrest him—Ellen (do you mark them), myself, then last of all that fatherless daughter of Wash Jones' only child who, so I heard once, died in a Memphis brothel—to find severance (even if not rest and peace) at last in the stroke of a rusty scythe.† (source)
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They are the lowest of the low, the whisky-besotted dregs of humanity, who deserve to bear not even the name of men, so far have they retrograded backwards.† (source)
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He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.† (source)
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There exist crab-like souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness.† (source)
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I fell asleep on the sofa, however, wondering over and over again how Lucy had made such a retrograde movement, and how she could have been drained of so much blood with no sign any where to show for it.† (source)
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He had retrograded to a shamefaced contentment.† (source)
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As I had foretold, the water failed entirely by the end of the first day's retrograde march.† (source)
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The Doctor bestowed a gracious but commiserating smile on the philosopher of nature, as he retrograded a step or two from the place whither he had been impelled by his excess of spirit, in order to reply with less expenditure of breath, and with a greater freedom of air and attitude.† (source)
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And Dale, like some men of lonely wilderness lives who did not retrograde toward the savage, was a thinker.† (source)
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Kells knew that a man and yet another might show kindness and faithfulness one moment, but the very next, out of a manhood retrograded to the savage, out of the circumstance or chance, might respond to a primitive force far sundered from thought or reason, and rise to unbridled action.† (source)
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