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vaunted
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    Sarai had studied offworld for two years at the University of New Lyons on Deneb Drei, but she was homesick there: the sunsets were abrupt, the much-vaunted mountains slicing off the sunlight like a ragged scythe, and she longed for the hours-long sunsets of home where Barnard's Star hung on the horizon like a great, tethered, red balloon while the sky congealed to evening.†  (source)
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    Beneath his ejection seat a tape recorder was making a continuous record of the signal characteristics of the American aircraft so that the scientific people would be able to devise a means of jamming and foiling the vaunted American flying eye.†  (source)
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    We sit down in a booth by the window, next to the vaunted parking lot.†  (source)
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    "Get out of here!" shrieked the vaunted professor of law, his eyes wild.†  (source)
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    I knew Manhattan only at street level, fitfully, and felt a little isolated, and the place scared me with its knowingness, its offhand vaunt, a style of mind and guise that can be harder to learn than some dialect of the Transvaal.†  (source)
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    I was wholly vaunting the prerogative of the short-story writer.†  (source)
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    An American is forever talking of the admirable equality which prevails in the United States; aloud he makes it the boast of his country, but in secret he deplores it for himself; and he aspires to show that, for his part, he is an exception to the general state of things which he vaunts.†  (source)
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    As I understand it, charity vaunteth not itself.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She vaunteth" in older English, today we say "She vaunts;" though the past tense (vaunted) is seen far more commonly. Grammarians might refer to vaunteth or vaunts as third-person, singular, present tense.
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    For it is not for what I have put into it that I have written this book, Nor is it by reading it you will acquire it, Nor do those know me best who admire me and vauntingly praise me, Nor will the candidates for my love (unless at most a very few) prove victorious, Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much evil, perhaps more, For all is useless without that which you may guess at many times and not hit, that which I hinted at; Therefore release me and depart on your way.†  (source)
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    Oh you self-vaunted stem of the plantain, how hollow it all proves.†  (source)
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    Spit in the fire if thou must vaunt thy courage.†  (source)
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    It's easy enough now, on the highspeed road in a dependable and comfortable car, with stopping places for shade and every service station vaunting its refrigeration.†  (source)
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    As the matter is, disturb not the peaceful hall with vaunts of the issue of the conflict, which you well know cannot take place.†  (source)
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