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  • I looked around the plane at the faces of my fellow prospective paratroopers.†  (source)
  • The prospective jurors will be there at nine and we should get started soon after.†  (source)
  • My prospective client hesitated, rubbing his fingers against his chin.†  (source)
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  • Miss Schulhoff, a prospective art major, was also queen of the Columbia College rush last fall.†  (source)
  • Yes, as before I had prospectively assumed that Bartleby would depart, so now I might retrospectively assume that departed he was.†  (source)
  • They speak of Alhazen and Vitellon,<16> And Aristotle, that wrote in their lives Of quainte* mirrors, and of prospectives, *curious As knowe they that have their bookes heard.†  (source)
  • The brochure he sent to prospective clients declared, So, you have a thirst for adventure!†  (source)
  • When I had taken this commission on myself prospectively, Mr. Barkis relapsed into perfect silence; and I, feeling quite worn out by all that had happened lately, lay down on a sack in the cart and fell asleep.†  (source)
  • Before prospective buyers could be allowed inside, though, the place had to be cleaned out.†  (source)
  • in my desk, then here I prospectively ascribe all the honour and the glory to whaling; for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.†  (source)
  • Hammond also concealed from prospective investors the fact that the elephant's behavior had changed substantially in the process of miniaturization.†  (source)
  • And Mr. Quinion, calling in Tipp the carman, who was a married man, and had a room to let, quartered me prospectively on him — by our mutual consent, as he had every reason to think; for I said nothing, though my resolution was now taken.†  (source)
  • As the plan took shape, the prospective escapees walked as much as possible, strengthening their legs.†  (source)
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