How To Use Maw In A Sentence
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But Mawuli glowers at Papa, apparently thinking about how to outwit Papa, not thinking about Mary Catherine.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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Some species with large mouths and small bills, such as nighthawks, whip-poor wills, and the aptly named frogmouth owls, open their bills wide as they fly into insects, and the prey is captured in the birds’ gaping maws.
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The stores that faced out into the streets did so with wide, gaping maws created by the shattered state of their glass windows.
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Contemporary British composer Nicolas Maw, no slouch at doing gnarly himself, was represented by "Music of Memory," a suite of mostly nontonal meditations built around a lyrical theme from a Mendelssohn string quartet that made several calming appearances during the piece.
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Trined Bleck Pakeetow in smawshin hap the slive riders, e did.
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
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The _mawk_ fly is indigenous, and thrives wonderfully, as you shall hear.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians.
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These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road.
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However, she soon gave over these attempts at intimidation, perched beside the percher, and again put something into his maw.
The Foot-path Way
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The Dutch forces' camp in suburban Samawah was attacked on April 22, with one of the mortar shells landing inside the compound.
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We were talking about this only today in the office, and marvelling that such a flat and movie-ish pile of mawk could be anyone's greatest film of all time.
Word Magazine -
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Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok.
Delivery Firms Help in Myanmar and China
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Mai mawm used tew cawl us dat mineee, mineee, mineee. . . yew get teh pikshur! yeers agoe.
Video: Kitteh is in the iPad - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Dat moobie wuz da buz wen ai kaem bak tu dis US fum Aezhah azza widdow kitteh – ai dun meenz smawl kitteh, ai meens kitteh wif kilt husbin an bebbeh gerl.
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Maks na sile wkladal mi kabanosy do ust, a kiedy rozmawialam z Mama, myslal, ze rozmawiam z M. i krzyczal, ze jestem pijana. pijana bynajmniej ani troche nie bylam.
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Sumo rikishi wear a stylized loincloth called a mawashi during their bouts.
Butt, butt. . . » Japundit Blog
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Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
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And tenderness, toobut does that appear a mawkish thing to desiderate in life?
Beyond Life
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Some thought he was about to insconce himself under the table; he himself alleged that he stumbled in the act of lifting a joint-stool, to prevent mischief, by knocking down Balmawhapple.
Waverley
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Passing through plumes of evil-smelling sulphurous smoke and steam, they finally encountered daylight, and emerged from the gaping maw of a volcanic cone.
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He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold.
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It is about Gerard who lives in Mawson, Australia and his penfriend Alice who lives somewhere in Sussex, England.
Squeamish Beware « So Many Books
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Oh, yes, doncha all know that there are one set of rules for Socialist Community Organizers and another for folksy, lipstick-besmirched hawkey mawms?
Think Progress » MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin By Writing ‘Cheat Sheet’ On Her Hand
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February 29, 2008 at 6:10 am but wen teh heffalumpz goe mawchin in tehy buzt up teh hoal boet!
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I know I am a vast nuisance; 'tis the penalty, my dear, for having a country mawkin as your best friend.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
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To do this is called maw-pak, and hence the game gets its name, maw-pak bae-ang.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917
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With the relish of a gormandizer it had taken more of its peculiar food than even its prodigious maw could assimilate.
Omega, the Man
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When she opened her eyes, a large, gaping maw of a cave awaited them.
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Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own affectingly hymns the singer's late father, pulling back from mawkishness.
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You have written about this so affectionately and without a hint of the mawkish which is a difficult balance, I find.
People Collection
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But being nostalgic is often derided as being just mawkish or sentimental; what's your take on nostalgia and sport?
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Atter dat Tenie sot a sparrer-hawk fer ter watch de tree; en w'en de woodpecker come erlong nex 'mawnin' fer ter finish his nes ', he got gobble' up mos 'fo' he stuck his bill in de bark.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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As Davie Gellatley put it, Balmawhapple had been "sent hame wi 'his boots full o' bluid!
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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Ai caint tells u now maor cuz teh ress doant sownd 2 goode lyk moovin in wiff mah mawm tyl fynd teh affordibul howsings an scawy stuf lyk dat but whut Ai gots 2 lett u noe iz mebee now Ai wyl has moar tyme fur ichc!
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He watched as Adam put the neatly tied bundles on the conveyor belt sliding toward the maw of the incinerator.
DOLL'S EYES
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Babae na gumawa ng mga mahihirap na mga pagpipilian ng sapatos maaga sa buhay, tulad ng mataas-takong at sandals, magdusa pa paa sakit mamaya sa buhay .
Ideonexus.com »2009» Septiyembre
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I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future.
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Kailan EB pala? jam tayo sa inyo minsan. daan kami ni ibanezman meron pinag kukuhanan d2 ng belton??? bumili pa kasi ako online smallbear syang kung alam ko lang meron pla d2 cgru medyo naka mura ng konti for sure saan yan hahahaha. baka gumawa ako ng tube based na reverb.
TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician
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It was satirical, mawkish, groaningly punny - and incredibly funny.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
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When my boddy-suvnt came with my ot water in the mawning, the livid copse in the charnill was not payler than the gashly De la Pluche!
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters
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An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails.
The Woodlanders
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Added a security measure to prevent an occasional bug where your SMAW rocket continuously fires.
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If I wasn't learning about it from friends or college radio, it was via the vast maw of underground 80s zines.
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Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok late last month.
Express-Delivery Firms Share
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Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness, and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects, and transmits the moving phantasms of one mans delirium, so as to people the barrenness of a hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose.
Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing
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Tinatamad nga lan kong magblog at gumawa ng layout kaya MERRY CHRISTMAS pa rin tong layout ko. .aahh ... wadeber ...
Archive 2007-03-01
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But they have to stay one step ahead of the black-furred and eyeless aliens, who lumber like bears with the speed of wolves and whose snapping maws contain multiple rows of phosphorescently purple teeth.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Attack the Block
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Ngayon ay hindi ko maghintay upang masimulan ang paglalaro sa aking bagong sistema ng seguridad sa bahay at ang mga camera Nagkakaroon ako ng mga naka-install na sa paligid ng bahay, na kung saan ko kayang dahil nerds gumawa ng paraan ng mas maraming pera kaysa sa gangsters.
Ideonexus.com »2,008» Disyembre
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And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there's aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, -- or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, -- or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, -- and sae I e'en daiker on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end.
Rob Roy — Volume 01
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Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government.
Waverley
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Thouars; Glycine subterranea L. Chonyi: tendegwa, nzugu mawe English: Bambarra groundnut, Madagascar groundnut, earthnut, baffin pea, Bambarra bean
Chapter 7
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Its mawkish sentimentality and studied compositional restraint is typical of high Victorian genre painting shown at the Fair.
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His annoyance is bitter anger bordering on rage; his sentiment is mawkish.
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What follows from here is unbridled mawkishness interrupted by some slapstick comedy.
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Ohai, speekin ob rakoons…mai DH gawt up udder mawnin, heers bangee typ noyz, fot ai wuz gittin eye swotter inna kichin.
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Hmmm. Crystal would receive points (if a point system had been used in the judging) for her use of the word 'maw'.
Lust Bites
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Albatross, cape pigeons, diving petrels, monymawks, mottled petrels, and sooty shearwaters all took their turns skimming our bow wave for fish.
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This is the Balkan - a florilegium of contradictions within contraventions, the mawkish and the jaded, the charitable and the deleterious, the feckless and the bumptious, evanescent and exotic,
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
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This lawn belonged to my paternal grandmother, whom I cautiously called Mammaw, for she resented being called anything that remotely betrayed her caducity.
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As before a dolphin of huge maw fly other fish and fill the nooks of some fair-havened bay, in terror, for he devoureth amain whichsoever of them he may catch; so along the channels of that dread stream the Trojans crouched beneath the precipitous sides.
The Iliad
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Berlanjut terus hingga kusampai di lhokseumawe untuk menjalankan beberapa tugas lalu 2 hari setelahnya ku mulai second step of journey menuju medan untuk take off melalui polonia, Medan.
Komunitas Blogger Muslim
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'Frisco Kid's Story" (Aegis, 15 February 1895) is mawkish and sentimental, a lesson in bathos and in how not to handle dialect (that is, by employing an abundance of it).
The woe of an aspiring genius.
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Millions of dollars were poured into the maw of defense spending.
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He watched as Adam put the neatly tied bundles on the conveyor belt sliding toward the maw of the incinerator.
DOLL'S EYES
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Marks Playhouse, in the East Village, and specialized in mawkish narratives whose sweetness was intended to soften, if not disguise, the ideology at the company's core.
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No posting until I've shoveled some antibiotics into my maw.
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A mawm is a mawm is a mawn, beez it kitteh, hooman, doggeh, wutevr…
MOM! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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To rebuke the seed is to forbid its growing. your -- literally, "for you"; that is, to your hurt. dung of ... solemn feasts -- The dung in the maw of the victims sacrificed on the feast days; the maw was the perquisite of the priests
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Fire belched from dragon maws; huge clubs thudded to the earth with monstrous regularity, each blow signifying another walker crushed.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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In the gaping maw of publishing, the independents tend to be modest about their work.
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Ako at ng marami sa aking mga kaibigan Dune isaalang-alang ng isang kapani-paniwala pelikula, kundi sa cinematic history na ito ay isinasaalang-alang ng isang kahindik-hindik kumawag-kawag.
Ideonexus.com »2,009» Disyembre
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There was more rain in Bago, and in Mawlamyine, about 100 miles southeast of Yangon, there was heavy rain and very high winds, but nothing that seemed dangerous.
Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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The Governor of Adamawa State, Admiral Murtala Nyako (rtd.), has rated performance of the Nigerian press very high in recent years considering what he described as the hydra-headed challenges journalists encounter in the discharge of their duties.
Thisday Online
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There are letters from home too so we can have shots of mawkish sentimentality and tears.
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But when the script turns to more romantic themes, it's never mawkish or sentimental, just grown-up.
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Sew dizz iz wat teh whirldz smawlist violin luukz liek…iz sew smawl dat iz invisiblol?
INVISBLE VIOLIN - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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He still nursed his grievances, for pet grievances are not yet included in the tax on luxuries, but these were no longer suffragettes and lawyers, but slugs, "mawks," and
More Tales of the Ridings
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A scavenging, or sorting, model involves fluidization of poorly sorted Mawson Formation lapilli-tuffs, perhaps with a contribution from volcaniclastic rafts, with the fine particles elutriated then injected to form clastic dykes.
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It also grounds the film in a reality rarely afforded these types of genre outtings (except for the preposterous moment where our hapless cameraman is dispatched by the giant beast, somehow sneaking behind him unnoticed long enough to get the poor fool into his gapping maw).
Flixnjoystix.com! » 2008 » April
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“Toby Mawer … isn’t he the fellow you called your archenemy?”
A Hellion in Her Bed
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If we see a member of the church of Christ living in obedience to the 'law of Christ,' we say he is a Christian, and speak of him as such; on the other hand, if we know he is in works denying Christ, being disobedient, we tacitly assume that he is not a Christian, yet a mawkish charity keeps us, in too many instances, from speaking out in this matter, and also keeps us from earnestly trying to distinguish the true Christian; and this is one of the great sins of the church in our times, for thus the wicked are not put to shame, and others are caused to hesitate in their graces by the conduct of those whom, in mawk charity, are called Christians.
The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
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At a jirga with the tribal elders on Friday, political administration officials, including Khaar political tehsildar Mawaz Khan Afridi and Arsalarzai political tehsildar Adalat Khan, warned that people involved in disturbing the peace would be dealt with strictly.
Taliban Declare Govt in Bajaur Agency, Tribal Areas
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So, skim off about 20% who live in trailer parks, have diseased dogs chained up, call all their girl children Sissy and their grandmothers Mamaw, drink homemade liquor, smoke corn husks and have a ‘backhouse’ which holds all their weaponry, and then you have the last 11% who appear here daily.
Think Progress » Bush Claims Program That Monitors Tens of Millions of Americans ‘Strictly Targets Al Qaeda’
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The poet W. H. Auden derided “Lip-smacking Imps of mawk and hooey,” and the feminist author Germaine Greer in her 1970 Female Eunuch rescued equestrian interests of women from psychological leers with “The horse between a girl’s legs is supposed to be a gigantic penis.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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While some hearts have filled with kindness and gratitude, others must have sunk an inch or two, weighed by the mawkish sentiment and the thought that it was all just a bit much.
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MawMaw Hopewell would've sent me to my room without any vittles at all.
Sex Ed With Barbie and GI Joe
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First he transferred Eddie's ammunition to his own person, and such valuables and trinkets as he thought "maw" might be glad to have, then he removed the breechblock from
The Mucker
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Dripping with sincerity, it descends into mawkish mush with all the profundity of a group hug.
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A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback.
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As he did so he recognized the figure standing a yard beyond Tesla, and closer to the maw the Jaff had opened.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The King's mother, the Electress Sophia, had commented on her to Mrs. Howard: “Look at that mawkin, and think of her being my son's passion.”
Lady Mary Wortley Montague
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Further north, large tracts of forest have been cut, including the gorges of the Thanlwin (Salween) River where it enters the Andaman Sea at Mawlamyine, an area that once harbored many local or endemic species of orchids, begonias, and other herbs.
Myanmar coastal rain forests
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So, perhaps to bestow gravitas on her, or at least some upper-classiness, the show establishes that she went to Bryn Mawr.
Mad About Mad Men
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In other bouts, the rikishi may grapple in an attempt to get a good grip on the mawashi and then launch a throw.
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Once my mother asked me if I would mind spending the weekend helping my memaw around her house as her live-in nurse had to take off for the weekend for personal reasons.
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April 19, 2010 at 7:53 am ai can pweese has a smawl mugg uv cawfee and a larjj chonklit bikkie?
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The first abuse occurred in the early 1990s, when seminarian Martin Satchell molested the second-grader at St. Aloysius in suburban Bryn Mawr, sometimes in the bathroom, the lawsuit said.
Suit: U.S. Catholic leaders failed to protect kids
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Besides these delicacies, there was a pudding, or dessert, of preserved crowberries, mixed with "chyle" from the maw of the reindeer, with train oil for sauce.
Red Rooney The Last of the Crew
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Ironically, it is these mawkish , calcified heads that have tarnished the sculptor's reputation.
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I had felt uneasy about the interview, in that it all seems a bit mawkish, a bit nosy, as if there is a terrible need to pry into a life, and celebrate that life at the same time, never being quite sure of the balance.
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A mawkish sentimentality appeared, just as it did after the death of Diana.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her parents were well-off, and Kate did attend Bryn Mawr, but dinner-table conversations in the Hepburn household did not re-volve around teas and tennis but, rather, feminism, Marxism, Fabian - ism, even nudism.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Shirley Temple and H.L. Mencken Hit Upton Sinclair
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Although Josh was able to repass Mawer for the third place he had lost while avoiding the wayward Senna, Fisher ran out of time to catch Duran for second.
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Sae what's to come o 'us I canna weel see -- I doubt I'll hae to tak the hills wi' the wild whigs, as they ca 'them, and then it will be my lo to be shot down like a mawkin at some dikeside, or to be sent to heaven wi' a Saint
Old Mortality, Complete
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Ai hassa worried….mai mawm called frum teh hospital….mai nawt-brudder is okay, butt! her heartbeat is jest a littlol off and she haz lawts of pain. *looks up to CC hopefully*
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Thus we hear of her first cheeseburger, the intimidations of Brie and Camembert served at Bryn Mawr, heaping platters of food passed at a black church, dysentery on a honeymoon in Mexico.
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The third day, we ascended to 14,000-foot Mawenzi Tarn, a mucky natural sump nestled against the jagged brown peak of Mawenzi itself.
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Call it rather a sort of beggarly day-dreaming, during which the mind of the dreamer furnishes for itself nothing but laziness and a little mawkish sensibility; while the whole materiel [sic] and imagery of the doze is supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro tempore fixes, reflects and transmits the moving phantasms of one man's delirium, so as to people the barrenness of an hundred other brains afflicted with the same trance or suspension of all common sense and all definite purpose.
Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
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I kekahi la ae, haalele lakou ia Kapakai, holo aku la lakou a mawaho pono o Kauhola, nana aku la o Aiwohikupua i ka akoakoa lehulehu ana o na kanaka mauka o Kapaau.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
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Mawi (pronounced "moy"), known for its eclectic, heirloom-style jewelry, even sells items from the past four years of collections in its archives section, while its blog announces sample sales and imparts crucial fashion gossip.
Online Boutiques
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The tone, which veers from slapstick comedy to mawkish melodrama, is as volatile as nitroglycerine.
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First in are the sharks and hagfishes, the black eel-like creatures with radial, rasping maws that strip the flesh.
Where Wonders Await Us
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His maw was the only one heard him walk the floor nights, and after he found, out she could hear him he walked in his socks.
In the Arena Stories of Political Life
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In the first place, because Mawley was so antipathetical to me, that I dearly loved to combat his assertions; and, secondly, on account of his disparaging my beau ideal of all that is grand and good in a writer and in man.
She and I, Volume 1
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This gentleman is every bit as frightening as Darth Vader, complete with cape, dark red jumpsuit, and a bear-trap maw topped by a tattooed white dome.
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The four-foot long furry slug raised itself up around her shoulders and a cavernous maw gaped at me.
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For the sake of the illustration, the displacement is here shown as very slight; but, in some cases, these elevations and depressions of the strata extend to many hundreds of feet -- as, for instance, at the mines of the British Iron Company, at Cefn-Mawre, in North Wales, where the downthrow of the fault is 360 feet.
Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
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January 17, 2008 at 3:06 pm bunney airweiz expandz to telekyo.. telekoymush… mawbile teknawlawjee yay i namajed to spells teknawlawjee
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This, I hope, won't sound mawkish, but the poems strike me as gentler too.
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A sordid, sentimental plot unwinds, with an inevitable mawkish ending.
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They will gather at Newport car park at 11.30 am on Saturday and march to the eco village at Brithdir Mawr.
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Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.
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D'ye think my maister can let the like o 'you sorn on him, week in, week oot, like a mawk on a sheep's hurdie?
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Grawng of Mandalay, Bishop Raymond Saw Po Ray of Mawlamyine and retired Bishop Joseph Mahn Eri of Pathein.
WN.com - Photown News
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Then, perhaps feeling that his gesture was mawkish, he looked embarrassed, took the flowers out and backed away.
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Zayn al-Mawasif hearing these words marvelled at the eloquence of his tongue and said to him, “O Masrur, leave this madness and return to thy right reason and wend thy ways; for thou hast wasted all thy moveables and immoveables at the chessgame, yet hast not won thy wish, nor hast thou any resource or device whereby thou mayst attain to it.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Worse yet, in the 1600s Spaniards lowered themselves into the coughing maw, thinking it contained gold.
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She's a perfect meeracle, and as soople as a mawkin '.'
The Human Side of Animals
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An awful sentimental barrage of mawkish music informed us of an appropriate emotional response.
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Her chin was awash with saliva and blood; she inadvertently drooled a thick cord into the quivering maw.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Ah! that one has got hold of a tiny shrimp, and is tucking it into his hungry maw, which is just in the middle of its flower-like body.
Ernest Bracebridge School Days
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Among the series al-Umawi considers are arithmetic and geometric series.
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They often scruple to approach a corpse, saying that the 'mawn' will seize them and that it fastens upon them in the night when asleep.
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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It could easily have degenerated into dreadful mawkishness but self-deprecating humour helped save the day.
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Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition.
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The brothers promptly swiped the exclusive license from the gaping maws of nearly a dozen major competitors.
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• The "thankee" must live, work or do their good in Southwest - the area between France Avenue South and I-35W, the Crosstown Highway and I-94 and I-394 (plus the northern half of the Bryn Mawr neighborhood).
Minnesota Premier Publications - Southwest Journal Stories
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And crivvens, the sturdy garment that helped generations of women, like Maw Broon, protect their clothes from the dust, splatters and splashes of daily housework, is making a come back.
IcAyrshire
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The likelihood of a toddler swallowing an all-terrain vehicle, for instance, didn't stop that product from being swept into the maw.
Get the Lead Out, Sir
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The certificate covers silk brocades like Amru; textile goods not covered elsewhere such as bed and table covers; silk saris and dress materials such as jamdani, jangla, jamawar tanchoi, tissue, cut work, 'butidar' and silk embroidery saris.
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I want to be informed, entertained and thrilled by these pioneers, not bored and nauseated by mawkish and self-regarding metaphors.
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Way back when beards were in, mawkish mystics brought forth the concept album.
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I did not want this story to be in any way mawkish or sentimental.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's done quickly, brutally, the maw rising and falling in quick slashes and dumping the mud to the side.
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The Japanese call it nemawashi nimah-wash-ee, a word drawn from the practice of bonzai, and which means “preparing to plant.”
The Elegant Solution
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D'ye think my maister can let the like o 'you sorn on him, week in, week oot, like a mawk on a sheep's hurdie?
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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Genuine love must combine tenderness and a certain firmness—otherwise, it will lose its inner soundness and resilience, and turn into sterile sloppiness and mawkishness.
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The minute the mercury soars, red wines, especially big reds, start to turn volatile and taste soupy and mawkish.
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But, as a former war reporter myself, I recoil from the mawkish sentimentality with which we enshrine our casualties.
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From latitudes 60 to 63 degrees we saw a fair number of birds: southern fulmars, whale birds, molly-mawks, sooty albatrosses, and occasionally
South with Scott
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I hope that that song doesn't sound too much like that kind of mawkish Christian rock song.
Belle And Sebastian: On 'Love' And Faith
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During waking hours she's fielding phone calls every weekend, eager to feed the greedy maw of celebrity gossip.
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Mr. BROWN: It's a very emotional (unintelligible) and not in a kind of mawkish way either.
Ten Years Gone, Jeff Buckley's Voice Lingers
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The death of a footballer is too often used as an excuse by the media and excessively emotional fans for an outbreak of mawkish sentimentality.
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They ordered the usual Hokkien staples - fish maw soup, hokkien mee (real one, the black type), sea cucumber with braised duck, steamed pomfret, and a partridge in a pear tree.
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But since every book is acted out in the readers' imagination, a Welshman could claim that Mrs. Rupa Mehra, the mulish, mawkish mother in Seth's novel, was his own mother-in-law.
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This book, small and easily digested, stopping just short of the maudlin and the mawkish, is on the whole sincere, sentimental, and skillful.
Tuesdays With Morrie: Summary and book reviews of Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom.
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Now the wheedling has begun again, this time to entice me into the maw of the ultimate terror: parenthood.
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In his vocabulary was no word for “crocodile”; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import — an image of a log awash that was not a log and that was alive, that could swim upon the surface, under the surface, and haul out across the dry land, that was huge-toothed, mighty-mawed, and certain death to a swimming dog.
CHAPTER XX
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Ahead, I could just make out the maw of the next dreaded tunnel.
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There were no mawkish sentimental outpourings, but you knew they were glad to have him back safe and sound.
The Sun
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But Keith Mawyer, property tax manager for the Department of Taxation's office of customer services, told Pyles in a Feb. 27 letter that even with the changes he is suggesting, it would not impact the current reassessment, which is to be certified next week.
News for Waynesboro News Virginian
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Yet there was a valid point in its criticism of ‘the mawkish sentimentality of a society that has become hooked on grief and likes to wallow in a sense of vicarious victimhood’.
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Blatherskite O'Loodheramawn, a barrel-chested, white-toothed athlete from Mullingar, welcomed the new loosening of restrictions.
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The NLRB is seeking a court order that would require Boeing to maintain its second 787 assembly line in the Pacific Northwest, an IAMAW stronghold.
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Iffen yu eber bizit a smawl town cawled “Hay-on-Wye”, yu will noe dat der aer (a) nebber, ebber enuff buuks, adn (b) nawt enuff munnies to hab awl teh buuks yu wants Rite Naw!
Shelf life? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Some Mikmaw had continued the traditional seasonal eel fishery in the Margaree River, for example, selling a few hundred pounds of fresh eels from the tailgates of pickup trucks each fall.
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However, decay is an inevitable consequence of life and even though we taxpayers heave a collective shudder at the thought of strange men rooting around in the maws of our leaders, we have to accept that they, too, are human.
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Birds in this family are also known, unflatteringly, as oilbirds, frogmouths, and goatsuckers, the last based on an old myth that these birds use their expansive maws to steal milk from goats.
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As part of her last wishes, she helped create the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center at Bryn Mawr College.
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The cries and wails of the thousands of orphans went up to high Heaven pleading for those fathers who had left them to fill the unsatiate maw of cruel, relentless war.
History of Kershaw's Brigade
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Presently we revive, we stir, we flutter; and Fate, that foe -- the old arch-spider, that hath no moderation in her maw -- now fixeth one of her many eyes upon us, and giveth us a partial glimpse of her laidly and grim aspect.
Devereux — Complete
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Starve him, let him miss six meals, and see gape through the veneer the hungry maw of the animal beneath.
The Somnambulists
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Waverley -- my young and esteemed friend, Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government.
Waverley
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When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast.
For All the Good These Hands Have Done
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Even its detractors, one of whom called the book "mawkish" and poorly written, conceded the book has had an enormous influence, and it did so by virtue of its sincerity.
Politics Daily
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I'm the last man on earth to suggest you should stay home and shovel squash into a toothless maw just because that's the thing you're supposed to do.
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Such feelings infuse Ekhrajiha, which is nonetheless an odd mix of slapstick humour and mawkish sentimentality.
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This time, it was just an outpouring of mawkish sentiment.
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Thursday I traveled to Bago and Friday to Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s third largest city.
Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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Some chunks of the concrete even lay on the ground below gaping maws where they used to reside.
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I lurv Mawntee Pi thonn – wundurr haow ai mist tihs bitt?
C’mere… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’.
The Settlement at Port Jackson
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Inside the maw the clouds of fiery rain bloomed towards the Cosm.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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This is never so ruinous than in the case of ghostly Mae Nak Pornthip Papanai, a suitably mournful spook who is given a JU-ON style edentulous maw that knocked me each time right out of the picture.
Who's that Naking?
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This is a refreshing development, given that modern theatre is all too often marked by self-indulgence and mawkish sentimentality.
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You take a rickety bus bursting with rural folk at Meerut, which, after a precarious drive down a virtually unpaved road dumps you at an unusual sounding place called Chhota Mawana More.
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Her mouth opened in another silent roar, a maw of mandibles, maxillae, and labrum, and she drew herself up to her full nine feet.
MINUTES TO BURN
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Una, hindi matiyak kung marunong ngang magbasa ng Kastila ang mga gumawa o ang isinalin lamang nila ay ang mga salin sa Ingles nina Charles Derbyshire, Leon Ma.
Bulawan Online 3rd Issue
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The term arcade nowadays is used rather loosely for those thinking that I'm twittering on about the latest Tetris or Galaga devices; arcade in modern gaming terms simply means games that are available to download from either Xbox Live of Playstation Network such as The Maw or Noby Noby Boy.
Undefined
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Yea," said he, "or it might better be said that she is their goddess, their mawmet, their devil, the very heart and soul of their wickedness.
The Well at the World's End: a tale
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He then became merry, and observed how little we had either heard or said at Aberdeen: that the Aberdonians had not started a single mawkin (the Scottish word for hare) for us to pursue.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Same goes for professional works by Muslim authors and publishers, in books I've seen such as Caesarean Moon Births by Hamza Yusuf or the newest print of Towards Understanding the Qur'ān, the abridged version of Tahfim al-Qur'ān by Sayyid Abul A'lā Mawdūdi (how do you like THAT for romanization!)
MuslimMatters.org
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His blues are powerful without being mawkish, his jazz adept and tasteful, his funk chops always an example to others.
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Her answer - 'through love' - replaced what should have been ethical reflection with mawkish anti-intellectualism.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged.
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He croons the words mawkishly, holding the mike close to his mouth, keeping a straight face.
