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With the discovery by Clausen and Treadwell that wild potato seeds may be repositories of swainsonine or some similarly toxic compound, a compelling case can be made for these seeds having caused McCandless s death. (source)repositories = places containing
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There were the vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored, and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. (source)repositories = places where things are stored
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From then onwards he became the repository of all her womanly feelings.† (source)
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What is perceived as being known is only a small part of what may be stored in this dark repository.† (source)
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Glancing behind her to the short, dark corridor we had just come from, the woman explained that the organization was not just a repository of records but was in fact still very much engaged in combatting slavery, even after Emancipation in the Indies.† (source)
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Another thing he'd created was a mesh repository where people could share useful tips, tricks, survival techniques for cold weather, and useful cell phone apps like the emergency radio, flashlight, compass and map for NYC, burn treatments, and first aid.† (source)
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Gringotts had seemed a place of wonder that day, the enchanted repository of a trove of gold he had never known he possessed, and never for an instant could he have dreamed that he would return to steal...But within seconds they were standing in the vast marble hall of the bank.† (source)
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During the turbulent time of hunger and crime after the bombing, thieves had broken into two fortlike storage repositories next to his mother's house and taken many valued heirlooms, including a lacquer box given to the doctor's grandfather by the Emperor, an ancient case for writing brushes and ink blocks, and a classic painting of a tiger, alone worth ten million yen, or more than twenty-five thousand dollars.† (source)
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In any case, the repository for the me was the local temple, which was a database of me, controlled by a priest/king called an en.† (source)
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I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.† (source)
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The frontispiece reproduced the photograph of a young man in Grenadier uniform, and I saw plainly revealed there the origin of that grim mask which, in Brideshead, overlaid the gracious features of his father's family; this was a man of the woods and caves, a hunter, a judge of the tribal council, the repository of the harsh traditions of a people at war with their environment.† (source)
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The stones have no magic of their own, but you may use them as repositories for your power and draw upon that reserve when in need.† (source)
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I went; sought the repository he had mentioned, found the articles named, and returned with them.† (source)
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Tiffey and myself, Mr. Copperfield, are about to examine the desks, the drawers, and other such repositories of the deceased, with the view of sealing up his private papers, and searching for a Will.† (source)
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No secrets are kept from me, for I am the repository of all secrets!† (source)
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The unexpected discovery of an object of great monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or impressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate, Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal surcharge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the carbonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the gizzard of a comestible fowl).† (source)
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