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  • Even with auxiliary fuel tanks, they would be cutting it extremely close.†  (source)
  • Over the sink was not a mirror but a picture of Jesus, framed there by the Ladies' Baptist Auxiliary.†  (source)
  • I was in college, Lori had become an illustrator at a comic-book company, Maureen lived with Lori and went to high school, and Brian, who had wanted to be a cop ever since he'd had to call a policeman to our house in Phoenix to break up a fight between Mom and Dad, had become a warehouse foreman and was serving on the auxiliary force until he was old enough to take the police department's entrance exam.†  (source)
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  • The ship's auxiliary control room was built right inside the bottom of the tail fin.†  (source)
    auxiliary = functioning in a supporting or backup capacity
  • Ladies' Auxiliaries put on bake sales in aid of this or that, offering pies and cookies and cakes, and jars of jam and chutney and pickles, each with a first-name label: Rhoda's Chow-chow, Pearl's Plum Compote.†  (source)
  • It's the only other panel he can remove with the tools on hand Also, we're getting rid of the auxiliary fuel pump.†  (source)
  • At dinner, prisoners and auxiliaries sat at the same tables as troopers and officers.†  (source)
  • On nights like this, with a full moon beating down like an auxiliary sun, the farmers say you can practically hear the corn and beans ripping their way through the ground.†  (source)
  • The State courts will be natural auxiliaries to the execution of the laws of the Union.†  (source)
  • One hundred and fifty islanders attended first-aid courses offered by the Red Cross auxiliary.†  (source)
  • My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete.†  (source)
  • Melekhin, Surzpoi, and Bugayev worked for hours attempting to engage our auxiliary power systems.†  (source)
  • But when the question is to life, and its materials, and its auxiliaries, how does he profit me?†  (source)
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