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  • To Langdon's amazement, a rudimentary circle glowed around the curator's body.†  (source)
  • In just a few minutes, he had made a rudimentary pipe bomb.†  (source)
  • It violates rudimentary police procedure.†  (source)
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  • However, he was the able-bodied servant I needed, and, poor wizard though he is, Wormtail was able to follow the instructions I gave him, which would return me to a rudimentary, weak body of my own, a body I would be able to inhabit while awaiting the essential ingredients for true rebirth ...a spell or two of my own invention ...a little help from my dear Nagini," Voldemort's red eyes fell upon the continually circling snake, "a potion concocted from unicorn blood, and the snake venom Nagini provided ...I was soon returned to an almost human form, and strong enough to travel.†  (source)
  • If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.†  (source)
  • My eyes moved across all the rudimentary instruments and silent control panels arranged on either side of the cramped walkway.†  (source)
  • They seemed to me to be rudimental, burrowing men, still standing on their defence, awaiting their transformation.†  (source)
  • For the first time in your rudimentary little life, you have a purpose.†  (source)
  • Two or three times, even, to the great astonishment of his friends, he had, when Aramis allowed some rudimental error to escape him, replaced a verb in its right tense and a noun in its case.†  (source)
  • Hiro, who has a rudimentary knowledge of electrical stuff, acts as gofer and limp-dicked adviser.†  (source)
  • Also forget not the strange fact that of all things of ill-savor, Cologne-water, in its rudimental manufacturing stages, is the worst.†  (source)
  • "It's a little rudimentary, but this book helped to teach me what it is to be human," he says.†  (source)
  • They didn't need my rudimentary little pointers.†  (source)
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