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spartan
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  • It's a spartan building with a corrugated steel roof that shakes so badly when a plane passes overhead, she half expects it to collapse.†  (source)
  • The Spartan quarterback lost his footing in the mud before any of our guys reached him.†  (source)
  • The room was spartan—hardwood floors, a pine dresser, a canvas mat in the corner that served as his bed.†  (source)
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  • Werner makes his way alone to a spartan hostel six blocks away, where he rents a bed for two marks a night and lies among muttering itinerants and listens to the pigeons and bells and shuddering traffic of Essen.†  (source)
  • Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he remade the Trask household, and Adam gave him no opposition.†  (source)
  • The finale was supposed to be a couple of hundred-foot-tall Spartan warriors who would crackle to life above the ocean, fight a battle, then explode into a million colors.†  (source)
  • It's quite a spartan room.†  (source)
  • Mr. Curtain's desk, a dullpolished, Spartan metal affair, was carefully organized with file boxes and short stacks of paper.†  (source)
  • I'm no Spartan and hold up an anemic wrist to prove it.†  (source)
  • Quickly, before she could think about what she was doing, she went into the spartan hallway and through the double doors, the rush of cold air from the world outside as astonishing as being born.†  (source)
  • The city-state is threatened from the outside by Spartan aggression and from the inside by leaders who, whatever their virtues, sure aren't Theseus.†  (source)
  • ThE CREEK HOUSE KITCHEN WAS A SPARTAN AFFAIR, LIT by cold fluorescent strips whose casing had become coffins for an assortment of insects.†  (source)
  • And he'll have to put up with rather Spartan accommodations in the attic, because my library has grown a great deal over the last few years.†  (source)
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