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    My cousin Jasper made good the loss; he was the son of my father's elder brother, to whom he referred more than once, only half facetiously, as "the Head of the Family"; he was in his fourth year and, the term before, had come within appreciable distance of getting his rowing blue; he was secretary of the Canning and president of the J.C.R.; a considerable person in college.†  (source)
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    During the first days they did not come across any appreciable obstacle.†  (source)
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    There followed an appreciable time lag, and then its possible significance occurred to me.†  (source)
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    They settled down an appreciable amount, and began inventing obscene verses to "Tinker Tanner."†  (source)
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    The two rooms looked onto the street—a fact which Signor Pastrini commented upon as an inappreciable advantage.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappreciable means not and reverses the meaning of appreciable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    On instinct, I climbed into his seat and began to fire, loosing close to five hundred rounds without doing any appreciable damage to the enemy.†  (source)
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    'How could you give me life, and take from me all the inappreciable things that raise it from the state of conscious death?†  (source)
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    The coroner, Dr. Robert Fenton, reported an appreciable difference in the body temperatures of the victims, and, on this basis, theorized that the order of execution had been: Mrs. Clutter, Nancy, Kenyon, and Mr. Clutter.†  (source)
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    Just at that instant Duane felt an almost inappreciable movement of the adobe wall which supported him.†  (source)
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    But in this case the piower of suggestion failed, and the second bottle of pills was swallowed by Barrabas in a moment of oversight that fortunately had no appreciable results.†  (source)
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    Probably to Leora one building differed from another— she appeared to distinguish between the general store of Norblom and that of Frazier & Lamb—but to Martin the two-story wooden shacks creeping aimlessly along the wide Main Street were featureless and inappreciable.†  (source)
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    It was wearisome work but quickly yielded appreciable results as soot gave way to clean stone, dark wood, and faded yellow paint.†  (source)
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    In such a situation time is inappreciable; so that Ben-Hur could form no judgment of distance gone.†  (source)
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