How To Use Grail In A Sentence
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Nuclear fusion is sort of the Holy Grail of energy production, whereby atomic nuclei slam together at high temperatures, fuse and release a great deal of energy.
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Trying to find truth in the blogs is like the search for the Holy Grail.
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For the last few years, the so-called foamless shoe has been the holy grail of the athletic footwear industry.
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Even they though are underplayed these days, as hockey seeks to woo that elusive grail - the family audience.
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Late in the twelfth century stories of the Holy Grail began to be written in France.
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Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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He is a kind of bewhiskered Sir Galahad who goes in quest of Trilby instead of the Holy Grail, and having found her, sits down on her bed and cheers her up while she kisses and caresses him.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.
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I now write for this magazine regularly, and this month being the patronal month of the Precious Blood, I was able to research and write about that, and the tradition of the Holy Grail, and Joseph of Arimithea...go on, get a copy.
Archive 2008-07-01
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It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
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In June 2002, Hasek backstopped the Red Wings to hockey's version of the Holy Grail.
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Rather than pursuing the holy grail of million-selling titles, the company is focused on achieving annual profitability.
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Some people link Mary to the Holy Grail and the Knights Templar.
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The modern quest for this holy grail focuses on hormones and chemicals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Holy Grail of potholing is believed to lie in a remote area of China where prehistoric caves are thought to be almost twice as deep as any previously explored.
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Grail engineering employs forty people, and is currently training twelve apprentices.
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Ladies and gentlemen of the global 1 %, she is the holy grail.
Times, Sunday Times
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In forest economics, that is the Holy Grail.
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But over the centuries, the fate of this now legendary vessel, the so-called Holy Grail, has come to haunt stories ranging from Arthurian legend to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI.
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People have called Rea asking if he knows the location of the Holy Grail, a cup Jesus is said to have used during the Last Supper.
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Those three are the holy grail for energy policy.
Times, Sunday Times
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This was pretty much the starting point of the Arthurian legends with regard to the Holy Grail.
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Then, at the beginning of Greenwitch, the grail is stolen back, so they don't have either of the things it took a whole book to get.
Greenwitch
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On a chevron engrailed, two lioncels rampant, between as many crescents.
Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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Cutting a path through the thickets of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and lunatic theorising that have grown up around the symbol of the Grail is no easy task.
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Visitation of Yorkshire records the coat of arms of Wodde (argent, three fleurs de lis, between cotises sable, a border engrailed with the last) in a north window of Almondbury Parish Church.
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Since this is something of a holy grail these days, it's probably worth pausing to consider how else you get there.
Times, Sunday Times
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This polarity is reflected in cinema as well, with the substance most commonly depicted as either a hilarious holy grail or a gateway to harder, darker substances.
Abe Schwartz: A "Bad Batch" of Pot Brownies in Los Angeles
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An Zski an Tribble an lolcatburgler an halfbeast an Paul an Jules an whiskers an TinkieCheezburger & teh Angel Catburgers an SJ an sangrail an Melissa an Teenie an 343GuiltySpark an kitkay an DMarie an DivaGeek an Duffy an annyluvsprintie . . .
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Because factoring is so difficult mathematically, it's also pretty much the holy grail of contemporary cryptanalysis.
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The holy grail for a curler, equivalent to a seven-ball victory in pool, is to have all eight stones nearer to the house than your opposition but such instances are very rare.
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We all know that the holy grail for people who yo-yo diet is how to keep off the weight that they lose.
Times, Sunday Times
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A hallow is the royal regalia carried by the King, or the objects sought by someone such as a 'Grail Quester' In other words: horcruxes.
New Harry Potter Title!
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His name is cited in the four gospels. Legend has it that he obtained the holy grail from the last supper.
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Find the Grail - it is more powerful than you can imagine.
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I was amazed when I actually found a copy of German anthroposophist Walter Stein's The Ninth Century and the Holy Grail, which I had assumed Ravenscroft had also fabricated.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The holy grail for all tobacco companies is the ‘safe cigarette’.
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= -- The arms are gules, within a border argent, a cross engrailed or, and are so given by Willis in his _Seals of
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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The holy grail of contemporary word coining — and this is not recreational — is a singular personal pronoun that means he or she.
Sniglets and Slithy Toves
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This was becoming a search of mythic proportions for a Holy Grail.
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The coat of the Hobys of Bisham, as correctly given, is "Argent, within a border engrailed sable, three spindles, threaded in fesse, gules.
Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.
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The bordures themselves were often dimidiated or even quartered and various lines of partition were used, so that the inside of the bordure might be engrailed or wavy.
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The last is culture - the holy grail of a community, where individuals feel strong levels of identification with both place and people.
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“For birders, the cassowary is their holy grail,” Mick tells me as we share tea on the veranda overlooking the garden.
Birdology
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He says it is the holy grail : the perfect 80 minutes.
Times, Sunday Times
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For the genetic engineers, the grail of nitrogen-fixation remains unattainable.
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It promises travellers the holy grail of air travel - no more layovers.
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The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.
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Of course, the international outcross turned out to be a false grail.
Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
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Hugh Hastings, sir Thomas Colleuill, sir William Lisle, Iohn de Graillie base sonne to the capitall de Boeuf, sir William Draiton, sir Iohn
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
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The earliest suggestion came from a neo-Druid writer, Nash Williams, who noted the similarity between the grail and an object included among the Arthurian regalia in traditional Welsh lists.
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But the holy grail is a sighting of the man himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Grail is tied to some sort of god-king Haunter/Nyarlathotep, who when the quester finds him, is faint and feeble.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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After having put in practice all chivalries, devout and worldly, gone with Peredur in quest of the Holy Grail and fair ladies, and dreamed with St. Brandan of mystical Atlantides, who knows what it would produce in the domain of intellect, if it hardened itself to an entrance into the world, and subjected its rich and profound nature to the conditions of modern thought?
The Poetry of the Celtic Races. VI.
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We may remember here that the Holy Grail is sometimes considered to be a stone, as well as a vessel.
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Three Texan brothers have discovered the holy grail of paint jobs - one that can change colour completely at the flick of a switch.
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This article intends to trace the Holy Grail theme from a set of motifs in medieval romance to the modern genre of grail literature and to focus on the resulting interface between literary and popular culture.
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Now there's growing talk of Dixon graduating to Formula One, the Holy Grail of motor racing.
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But like the quest for the Holy Grail, SEO is also sheaved in myth and misinformation.
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Abbey, a cross engrailed, and showing the head of a crosier above the shield in the centre.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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Today's proliferating new technologies seem to offer advertisers the chance to reach this holy grail.
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Someone who wanted the Grail to open the Gate between worlds.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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~ Why the rumored discovery of the Higgs boson is bad news for particle physics -- Some call the Higgs boson the Holy Grail of particle physics.
Speedlinking 6/4/07
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Getting something for nothing is the holy grail of the consumer.
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It be thy Holy Grail, Myrddin, where thee bade the Goddess to store thy knowledge.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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Tullibardine, the son and successor of Sir David, enlarged the College of Tullibardine, and built that part where his arms and his lady's are impaled -- the three stars within the tressure for Murray, and a cross ingrailed for Colquhoun, finely cut in stone on the outside of the wall.
Chronicles of Strathearn
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For Ellington enthusiasts, those acetate pressings are our Loch Ness Monster, our Holy Grail.
LOVE YOU MADLY
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It tells the tale of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table and their quest for the Holy Grail.
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He went to bed early, like I told you, to try and find the Grail.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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And why does the grail continue to fire the imagination of writers and readers alike?
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The fabled holy grail of gaming is letting the player do whatever they want - full interactivity.
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When these three charges are taken up, there is some hesitation as to the next step: a bordure gules bezanty is used, then a bordure engrailed.
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The proposed link between the grail episode and early Celtic myth was not the only suggestion put forward to explain the grail.
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Owain defeated an English and Gascon force at Soubise later that year, capturing Sir Thomas Percy and Jean de Grailly, the Captal de Buch.
Kings and Princes
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Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The grail itself was sin, none other than sin itself; what greater obeisance to Love itself than to part with all?
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Nawt to b (too) pickee, but wasn’t it teh Ark of Teh Covenant, Nawt teh Grail (check wiv sangrail!)
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Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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It was like the search for the Holy Grail, but more like the Monty Python film version.
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Right here they were dealing with the Ascot Gold Cup, the Holy Grail for the stamina racehorse.
BARRACUDA 945
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In the time of Arthur, the quest for the Grail was the highest spiritual pursuit.
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In his rude hovel, with all the sublimities of Nature around him, this child of the wilderness looks up to the summits of the Atlas, "with peaky tops engrailed," and immediately thereafter looks down again to attend to the engrailing of his neat five-franc pieces, which can hardly be told from the genuine.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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If Dan Brown had done his homework he would have found that when the Grail first appeared in twelfth century French romance literature it was simply "un graal," a rather pagan-like plate for serving food that had some magical properties.
Archive 2006-06-01
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All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated but to be rescued and saved at the last. '
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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They announce that they have found the holy grail.
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Getting beyond the first stage of a major tournament is the holy grail.
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Clad in a tight-fitting suit that seems one size too short, and clutching his briefcase as if it contained the Holy Grail, he exudes an almost saintly goodness.
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Or this, further, it may represent, in striking and inspiring way, -- that the pure in heart shall win the victories in life; that the guileless are the valiant sons of God; that the heart that resists evil passion and is touched by pity for the world's woe is the heart that reincarnates the passionate purity of the Christ and can reveal again the healing power, the Holy Grail of God.
Parsifal A Mystical Drama By Richard Wagner Retold In The Spirit Of The Bayreuth Interpretation
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Legend has it that he obtained the holy grail from the last supper.
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Now, it may seem odd to focus on letter spacing, but it's been a holy grail of the printing industries since the beginning.
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ok the coast is clear…put yer rifle down and gives me a snorgle! sangrail says:
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This is based on the idea that the original French sangraal, which is usually taken as san graal Holy Grail, should properly be rendered as sang real—the royal blood, which they took to mean a bloodline.
The Templar Revelation
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It was always a myth, like the holy grail, or the elixir of life, that I was searching for.
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Others sought the Holy Grail, Dad stalked the earth in pursuit of the perfect pyjama.
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Perhaps it was an illusion, or a myth, like the Holy Grail, but she searching for it all the same.
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Someone who wanted the Grail to open the Gate between worlds.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.
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Kynge Arthur, of his noble knyghtes of the Round Table, theyr mervayllous enquestes and adventures, the achyevying of the Holy Grail, and in the end the dolourous deth and departyng out of thys world of them al. Whiche book was reduced in to englysshe by Syr Thomas Malory knyght as afore is sayd, and by me enprynted and fynyshed in the abbey
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"
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The longer term holy grail of 3D bioprinting is the ability to be able to print viable human tissue for grafting or implant into the human body.
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The Blood Royal of this actual Grail lineage persists, via the female line, in the royal houses of Europe to this day.
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I think it's safe to assume, dealing with the Knights Templar, the Holy Grail will be involved somehow, and while not necessarily SF, the whole Grail/King Arthur/Templar mythos is just too interesting to pass up (see Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).
Tube Bits for 01/22/2009
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The Grail vouchsafes visions, specifically processions and hallows, to the quester.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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But the holy grail is a sighting of the man himself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Friends and acquaintances consistently tried to talk me out of seeking this holy grail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sustained nuclear fusion is the holy grail of the power industry.
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After finding out the freeware is your holy grail of software, I now understand how you failed on this one.
All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
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It is the best hope we have of this much sought after holy grail - peace in our time.
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At the heart of the fight between the two big parties is the holy grail of the public sector, those mystical ‘savings’.
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In the time of Arthur, the quest for the Grail was the highest spiritual pursuit.
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Look for Rebel Yell, Holy Grail, and all those cool t-shirts that cost a bundle.
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A polymorphic batch file appears to be a holy grail to some virus writers, perhaps because of how insanely difficult it is to produce one.
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The Grail contained a supremely powerful force, but before it could pass completely into his possession, he would have to suffer a final ordeal.
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His early interest in European legends resulted in a Master's Degree on the Grail legend.
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Furthermore, the absence of engrailed expression in the onychophoran ectoderm makes more sense in the context of a skeleton bounding function rather than a general segmentation program.
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`We'll find it, wherever it is,' promised Joan fiercely, as if this mission was the search for the Holy Grail.
JUST BETWEEN US
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December 31, 2007 at 5:42 am kong-rats, sangrail, on knot 2nd!
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For me, the Grail version of the psalter is the very best.
St. Joseph's Abbey, Spencer, MA
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For example, chaetal sacks are one of the few ectodermal features of polychaetes that regularly express engrailed, and chaetae are the primary indurated elements in the ectoderm.
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It be thy Holy Grail, Myrddin, where thee bade the Goddess to store thy knowledge.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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The Grail itself, which began as the dish from which Jesus are at the Last Supper, and in which his blood was collected at the Crucifixion, has become the chalice of the Last Supper, and by implication the forerunner of the chalice of the Mass.
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Neither doctor manages to find the holy grail of a cure, but their quest lays bare the foundations of contemporary thinking on the subject.
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The holy grail of theoretical physics is to find a single unified theory that describes the four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces.
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The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.
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A vaccine for malaria has become something of a scientific holy grail.
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January 9, 2008 at 3:51 pm glad 2 teetched u nyew wurd, sangrail!
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Japan, as the most style-conscious market on the planet, represents the holy grail in fashion terms.
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Example 2: An excerpt (and note the salvific sense conveyed in the titles alone) from A Vision of the Grail, pub. 1992, in a chapter titled The Code of Codes, by molecular biologist (and Nobelist, no less) Walter Gilbert:
The Volokh Conspiracy » Would the Public Support “Cap and Refund”?
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The holy grail of acoustic swath mapping is to use backscatter more quantitatively; that is, to transform the image into estimates of seafloor properties.
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This bee ambercat and handicat an sangrail an Paws4thot an Jules an moe an lotje an flooof an SJ an starling an awl teh otters across teh sea – sleeping sweetlee in their liddle beds.
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Once it turns out that the "grail" is actually Mary
Romantic Fear
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What do you do when you have found the holy grail?
Times, Sunday Times
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As long as is does not infringe on another, this pursuit of happiness as determined by the pursuer is the grail we have long lauded as our beacon.
Palin and the right to privacy: Becoming what we hate
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The upshot is that there is no obvious genetic holy grail defining what it means to be human.
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Our holy grail is the standardized test, even though these tests have been shown to be laughable in tracking student knowledge, biased towards those with more wealth and cultural capital, and destructive in narrowing and dumbing down the curriculum as schools focus on test prep to avoid closure.
Rick Ayers: It's Time to Decriminalize Learning
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People put their buckets or grails, on the grailstone at regular intervals of the day like breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the grails will then be filled with food, liquor, tobacco, dreamgum, a towel, etc.
The Fabulous Riverboat by Philip Jose Farmer
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Simulating protein folding is often considered a "holy grail" of computational biology, he added.
Boing Boing: October 20, 2002 - October 26, 2002 Archives
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Like the Holy Grail, it is a dream, a tantalising illusion.
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On a chevron engrailed, between two crescents, as many lioncels rampant.
Notes and Queries, Number 39, July 27, 1850
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The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
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Notice what is in the center of the painting - a "grail" - i.e., chalice!
Love and Sex in the Renaissance
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January 16, 2008 at 7:01 am sangrail obviously a GUD chil…….still visits da parentals…..dutifly I do too!
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This may well become the new Holy Grail of financial economics.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the other most common lines of partition are engrailed, invected, wavy, nebuly, indented, dancetty, embattled, raguly, dovetailed, and potenty.
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The team get very excited by the tale of Sir Lancelot and the Quest for the Holy Grail and decide to relive his adventures.
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From the same lands came the quest for the Grail that revivified the spirituality of the twelfth century.
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It's the holy grail of foundation!
The Sun
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Then think about the grail motive as a background to the Bruckner Adagio.
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Soon I was hunting for the Holy Grail: a genuine spring-wound Victrola.
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“If we are successful,” he says, “it will be the holy grail of postharvest fruit biology.”
The Fruit Hunters
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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So the Holy Grail really is to try to design athletic footwear that is very light, that is very flexible, that has specific areas of high shock absorbency or shock attenuation, whatever you want to call it.
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And so, via girasole, the best-ever adopta-mom, the Booklist review for GRAIL QUEST: THE CAMELOT SPELL!
TGIF
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It has been suggested an underground vault contains the Holy Grail, a cup from which Christ drank, and the Ark of the Covenant.
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In most of these romances the grail is a cup used at the Last Supper and there are several actual vessels that claim to be the Holy Grail.
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Mrs. Whitaker gave fifty pence to Marie, who gave her ten pence change and a brown paper bag to put the books and the Holy Grail in.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS
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It is a voluptuousness only the novel knows, and the elusive grail we poor scribblers helplessly chase.
An Interview With Cynthia Ozick
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Like the Holy Grail, it is a dream, a tantalising illusion.
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An object referred to as the grail and later as the Holy Grail occurs in a number of medieval romances written between the end of the twelfth and the end of the thirteenth century.
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The wealth of evidence is startling, including the links to King Arthur and his descendants as the guardians of the grail, the guardians of Mary's mortal remains.
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For the smart set, thalassotherapy is the medi-beauty holy grail.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remembered all these numbers, but all these can possibly cause cervical cancer, sort of the Holy Grail of this, to try and prevent as many cervical cancers as possible, is to produce something called a multivalent vaccine.
CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2002
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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Through a mouthful of pear and custard, `We've decided to make you a knight of the Holy Grail ," Morris said.
LOHENGRIN
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Gilliam Directing The Holy Grail [ with Jones ] was my lucky break.
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In 1190, no one had ever heard of the Holy Grail: fifty years later, it was a central theme of half a dozen romances, familiar to anyone interested in the stories of Arthur and his knights.
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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Both resorts offer the holy grail of Caribbean property: beachside homes.
Times, Sunday Times
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January 1, 2008 at 2:11 am dis iz mah kitteh. dere are menny like it, but diz wun iz mine. sangrail says:
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For the last few years, the so-called foamless shoe has been the holy grail of the athletic footwear industry.
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Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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OLEDS are far superior in brightness and in their compact nature. the holy grail is to make them last more than a few thousand hours. there is also a lot of hope for carbon nanotubes. — dave kliman
Jumping on the L.E.D. Bandwagon - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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Nuclear Fusion Nuclear fusion - the process which powers the sun - is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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In half an hour we were at the last crest, in a place where the Turks had dug trenches and stoned up an elaborate outpost of engrailed sangars which on this black new-moon night of our raid were empty.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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The discovery is being hailed as The Holy Grail of astronomy.
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The Holy Grail is actually growing an organ, because people need livers, they need hearts, they need pancreases; how far down the track is that?
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Perhaps the virginity of the Grail hero, so stressed by late Christian redactors, may be a reminiscence of the virgin state of the initiate in the pagan ceremonial.
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After years of searching, I have found my holy grail: the ultimate pub quiz.
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Nuclear fusion is the Holy Grail of energy production.
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For decades it has been acclaimed as pop music's lost masterpiece, the holy grail of rock and the best album never made.
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Some of the other most common lines of partition are engrailed, invected, wavy, nebuly, indented, dancetty, embattled, raguly, dovetailed, and potenty.
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The holy grail for retail developers is turning shopping into a leisure pursuit.
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They learn James went to Scotland with friends who know his aunt is a vampire; their fathers belong to belong to the Order of the Silver Palm who will use Olivia and James as expendable pawns to get the Blood Grail they think Reign has.
Let the Night Begin-Kathryn Smith « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Within the Christian tradition it has generally been believed that the Grail was the actual chalice used by Christ at the Last Supper.
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The plot proper, however, is the Big One - a quest for the Holy Grail.
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Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
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In pursuit of the horological grail of being "on time," the railroads introduced standard time zones in 1883.
The Tyranny of the Clock
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This is a tale of a young woman named Alice Fell, a teenage American punker who has been having visions of the London Eye all her life (and before there was such a thing), so follows her vision to the UK and falls into a conspiracy that moves through secret societies (and shadowy assailants) all the way back to the origins of the Holy Grail myth.
Feast Your Eyes...
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The question of whether life could have evolved on another planet has always been the big question, the Holy Grail, for astrobiologists and planetary scientists alike.
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That was my Holy Grail, and there could be no real life for me until I found it.
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Illinois: The race between Rep. Mark Kirk (R) and state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias (D) reminds us of that great scene in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" where the black knight is grievously wounded time and again but comes back for more.
The Fix's "Big Senate Six"
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Azure a lion rampant or, with a crescent for difference, impaling argent a cross engrailed flory sable between four Cornish choughs proper -- Crest, on a wreath of the colours a Saracen's head full-faced, couped at the shoulders proper, wreathed round the temples and tied or and azure.
Notes and Queries, Number 21, March 23, 1850
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Another generation of Labour leaders, in the 1960s, were still left to search for the Holy Grail of economic planning.
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Only 100 were printed with its central image -- the Curtiss JN-4 airplane -- upside-down, and today a single copy of this Holy Grail of philatelic flubs sells for more than a million dollars.
Michael Sigman: Amazon's Perfect Mistake
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Almost all of us are trying to find a third way, the holy grail of a work/life balance which means having a stimulating career and a family who still remember your name.
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There was no quest for the holy grail of the infallible gloveman who could also make hundreds.
Times, Sunday Times
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The couple's Holy Grail was a huge mansion in the verdant English countryside.
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In molluscs, engrailed expression surrounds the shell gland of snails and scaphopods.
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The Vorspiel, or prelude, to the opera takes for its subject the descent of the Holy Grail, the mysterious symbol of the Christian faith, and the Grail motive is the key to the whole work.
The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers
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The term "grail" comes from the Latin gradale, which meant a dish.
American Chronicle
