How To Use Miraculous In A Sentence
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The ASA said the complaints had cited the cartoon depiction of Christ and the Sacred Heart, the use of the term "miraculous" for describing a mobile phone deal, and the fact that it was published on Maundy Thursday.
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She tapped her umbrella on the setts, calling haughtily for way, and way miraculously appeared.
At Swim, Two Boys
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I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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Miraculously, this is one of the paciest, easiest to read novels you could imagine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Transforming the press account, Kelly's own narrative further compresses Kastriot's story of miraculous survival into three stanzas and a shorter envoi which are intended to evoke the traditional folk ballad.
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It had become clear that he was dying and Frieda took him first to Germany and then to the south of France in search of what could only have been a miraculous cure.
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I have to applaud Chris for his miraculous, classy turn-around from drug-riddled dope fiend to responsible father and Broadway star.
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Here was a soft-pedalled, soft-grained performance, miraculous in its level of delicacy attained and avoidance of the precious.
Times, Sunday Times
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She miraculously encountered the prison dungeon and entered to get some answers.
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It is a hymn to the unanticipated and the miraculous and to the sustaining potential of faith and hope in life itself.
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In the Finale - to my mind, the most miraculous symphonic movement ever written - Jochum and his Bavarians are supremely moving.
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Yet for it to have lasted so long is little short of miraculous.
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Watch the miraculous gift of breath, as your diaphragm lifts up and pulls down.
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The effects of organ transplant surgery can seem miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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I suggest that we sit down for a moment on a nearby bench, which is miraculously free of dossers and bank clerks.
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One less well-documented feature of the canals of East London is their miraculous healing power.
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He does some other weird stuff then like knock people over using chi, and pull a railway locomotive along by cables attached to huge piercings right through his biceps, insane but not as miraculous as the electrical stuff.
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Miraculously, Posada managed to find the ball, whirl and throw a perfect peg down to second to impale the Impaler.
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The tapestry from Raphael's cartoon of "The Miraculous Draught of Fishes" is a very remarkable work of art, and one which stands alone in modern needlework.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
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He was certain that he would be able to bring about some kind of miraculous treatment method.
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Another victim of the changing fortunes of war was Nedeltcho Bontchev, best remembered as the flier who miraculously survived a collision between his aircraft and an Allied bomber.
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But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped.
The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
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The wound in the shoulder is miraculously healing, without either blood-letting or cauteries.
To Have and to Hold
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His tomb was discovered miraculously in the 5th century.
Times, Sunday Times
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By these means the notion of my partiality took air, and whether Miss Thrale sent him word slily or not I cannot tell, but on the 25th January, 1783, Mr. Crutchley came hither to conjure me not to go to Italy; he had heard such things, he said, and by _means_ next to _miraculous_.
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
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How does one explain the rise of an empire so rapid that it seems almost miraculous?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Most irritating were the German rocket launchers, which miraculously decimate infantry and armour alike with impunity.
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Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Everywhere people are promenading, basking in the miraculous light: warm, long, slanting, at once brilliant and diffuse.
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So I feel very disquieted by any suggestion that this is a memoir showing people how possible it is to make the most of a bad start, how to love parents who have behaved atrociously, how to somehow miraculously rise above trauma out of sheer good will.
The Glass Castle « Tales from the Reading Room
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And then a miraculous soundscape of snow before the great hymn of victory.
Times, Sunday Times
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I already struggle not to feel the wool is being pulled over my eyes, or perhaps (to be kinder) I simply feel that there is a strong sort of wishful thinking going on by those involved; so for the Church to indulge in this sort of cosmeticism when the miraculousness should be allowed its own self-evidence - it makes me feel as if I'm being patronized.
Incorruptible and Forever
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There's also a reference to what they call a miraculous event that occurred during the weekend after Terri's feeding tube was removed and -- "Which fundamentally alters the manner in which Terri's claims are to be viewed by the federal courts when Congress, in bipartisan and dramatic fashion, thundered the message that the United States of America must stand for life, accuracy and fairness and in the process afforded an incapacitated woman," that apparently a reference, that miracle reference apparently to Barbara Weller, a lawyer who happens to be a friend of the parents, who said over the weekend that Terri Schiavo apparently tried to mouth the words "I want to live.
CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2005
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The bowler bowled, the batsman, instead of backing further away, wafted at the ball, which looped up towards mid-off, who, miraculously, caught it.
Why Pakistan's poor slip catching is itself catching
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These two conjunct objects of the Divine Covenant are to be carefully considered, in order to obtain a clear and accurate view of miraculous inspiration by the Holy Ghost.
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I like to think that, somehow, she'd have managed, that her miraculous born-again faith would have brought comfort and hope.
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But only a month later, she was miraculously let out of hospital, a feat which doctors put down to her strength of character and will to recover.
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By the time my nurse reappeared, I was feeling miraculously chipper.
The Sun
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But the most miraculous part of this panel is the predella, which is full of Friars of the said S. Catherine in the form of little figures.
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
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She had an almost miraculous ability to get out of the most dangerous conditions or unexpected accidents.
Times, Sunday Times
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'Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death.
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The patients, every one of them as though they were in a conspiracy, first belaud her for their miraculous cure, go into raptures over her medical skill, and abuse allopath doctors, then when she is flushed with excitement, begin holding forth on their needs.
The Schoolmaster
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They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.
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The sensory hair cells in a human ear at 4600x, enfiled in marching crescent-shapes, are almost miraculously uniform.
A World Ready for Its Close-Up
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This miraculous reconciliation of Christ, declares that He is the Son of God!
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The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the _king_, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will.
Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
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The use and ceremonial procession of the relics paralleled the miraculous healings described in hagiographical sources.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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A traffic policeman had a miraculous escape after his patrol car aquaplaned on a wet road, hit the central reservation of the A120 and burst into flames
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November 2nd, 2009 Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has deserted his efforts to sinecure a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River craft pile-up for his intergalactic spaceship mission.
Hero pilot Sullenberger jokes about marital boost in NBC 'People ...
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However, this miraculous story seems to have seized the public imagination, earning a few minutes on most evening news programs.
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It turns out this gentle giant has miraculous healing powers which some of them get a chance to benefit from.
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After looking at the credentials for miraculous claims, Hume came to the conclusion that the balance of probabilities counted against them.
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Through his consummate technical skill and artistic vision, Botticelli brings this heroic progress brilliantly and miraculously to life.
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It happened on the morning after the festival of Mahashivaratri-the Great Night of Shiva-when, weakened by fasting and loosened by a kind of spiritual hangover, Navin revealed to Kudra that he adored horses and that during his youth had entertained the impossible dream of miraculously transcending Vaisya, the merchant caste, and ascending to Kshatriya, the warrior caste, so that he might ride.
La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
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If we discover the Higgs, that's a miraculous discovery," said Harris Kagan, a physics professor at OSU working on protonic collisions.
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Instead, the film buckles under the weight of its subject matter and resorts to a blur of fraught chases, narrow scrapes and miraculous reprieves.
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[Footnote 17: It is stated that the Aztecs paused in admiration of this feat, whilst "the Son of the Sun," as they termed Alvarado, from his fair hair and rubicund visage, performed this extraordinary leap; considering it miraculous.]
Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development
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Most relics were credited with miraculous healing powers, while some were also invoked as guardians of justice.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The very word "incorruptible" implies this attitude, as if the natural processes were a corruption, dirtying what is holy; whereas I find, on looking around me, that the intricacy of the decomposition process is incredible, amazing - miraculous, if you will - whether they be the product of some Creator or the result of some intricate evolutionary processes.
Archive 2007-08-01
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It is old, rickety, and decrepit, and miraculously survives the nine-day trip.
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But even viewed miraculously, Jesus' ability to endure torture in The Passion works against any spiritual exaltation that the film wishes to inspire.
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Yet politicians of all parties like to pretend that there is a quick-fix solution that will miraculously transform the service into the envy of the world.
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Yet for it to have lasted so long is little short of miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then Cady has to make intimate friends - leapfrogging rank and precedence with miraculous speed - with the villainesses of the piece.
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Thus, through the hands of Dumouriez, may Rouget de Lille, in figurative speech, be said to have gained, miraculously, like another Orpheus, by his Marseillese fiddle-strings (fidibus canoris) a Victory of Jemappes; and conquered the Low Countries.
The French Revolution
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The search for this quark-gluon plasma has been long and frought with peril (CERN miraculously announced its discovery just before the turnon of RHIC - an announcement which later proved to be premature and a stretching of the truth).
Top Physics Stories
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His miraculous paintings have an undescribable moonlit quality that evokes both day and night, or a dream or memory.
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Biggs is enraged and beats the waiter aggressively. the rogues in the pub come to beat up biggs, but milo effectively uses his wit and manages to teleport biggs to the roof of the pub. biggs slips from the roof and falls facedown on the ground, but miraculously survives.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Avi’s Forum
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His own miraculous power is seemingly well documented, though he himself was reluctant to speak of it.
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Maybe I'll tell you about all the prayers, and the psychic chiropractor, and the herbs, and the cascaria bath prescribed by my friend the Yoruba priestess, and the miraculous appearance of a Melchite abbot just when I'd been praying to see him.
Life Goes On
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Last year, the improbable storyline involved Slovakia's miracle run to the semifinals, accomplished primarily on the backs of offensive force Tomas Tatar and the miraculous netminding of Jaroslav Janus.
Swiss goalie beefs up his status with strong play at world juniors
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Our 'recessionista' version of this dress is available in two-toned chocolate brown and is miraculously flattering and sexy.
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Though the bank was looted, the vault miraculously remained secure.
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Another victim of the changing fortunes of war was Nedeltcho Bontchev, best remembered as the flier who miraculously survived a collision between his aircraft and an Allied bomber.
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DIY superstores, for example, have a similar miraculous power over us.
Times, Sunday Times
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There has been a great deal of scepticism about how genuine this miraculous transformation can be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Any celebration of Stravinsky must include dance, and Mark Morris, whose choreographic work for a previous festival, "Mozart Dances," miraculously captured every musical shape and impulse in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 11, is now offering Stravinsky's "Renard," a small theater piece based on a Russian tale about farmyard animals outwitting a prowling fox.
Stravinsky Crashes the Party
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He landed with a sickening thwack on the hard pavement but miraculously was unhurt.
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The controversial doctrine of transubstantiation recognised the miraculous transformation of bread and wine into the actual body and blood of Christ during the Eucharist.
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Exhibiting the same obstinance that the Pharisees seemed to favor when dealing with Jesus, his own students apparently need some sign, some miraculous konk on the head in order to see who Jesus is and to hear his saving Word.
Archive 2009-02-15
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An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
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So does Michelle consider Tony's slip of the tongue and miraculous recovery of memory a venial or a mortal sin?
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But the part the credulous Friedman really gulped down was that bit about how Denmark "innovated" thanks to tax hikes then gave some of the money back to allow people to afford the miracle energy innovations, which-you should recall even if left unsaid by Espersen and her interlocutor-were so miraculous and innovative that they had to be mandated.
Energy Tribune
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After several deadlocks among three frontrunners, miraculously his name appears on virtually every ballot.
Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Three: A Pope, A Pianist, A Philogoist and More!
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On the surface of the cloth stream that poured past him, he pictured radiant futures wherein he performed prodigies of toil, invented miraculous machines, won to the mastership of the mills, and in the end took her in his arms and kissed her soberly on the brow.
THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London
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It boasts medieval pink buildings that perch miraculously atop towering white limestone cliffs at Corsica's most southern tip.
The Sun
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In that case -- well, he felt something very like awe before what he called her miraculous stupidity.
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
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This memoir is as much about those miraculous rebirths as it is about what is lost.
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The brandade was a masterpiece, and Pardon had served a dry wine from somewhere around Nice, which went miraculously with the fish.
Maigret's Revolver
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And where is the miraculous, opalescent thing of beauty headed next?
April Daniels Hussar: The 10 Craziest Moments of Royal Wedding Frenzy Yet
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In the meantime, the miraculous score is nobly treated by Levine and a superior cast of singers, and for that alone, the Met's efforts on behalf of Berlioz deserved all the opening-night bravos.
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This paper introduces the basic formula of a miraculous cure and its effect of prevention and cure on weanling piglets'diarrhoea , and its test result in promoting them to grow.
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Having spent much of her life until she was 40 as an invalid, travel miraculously cured her ailments.
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It is also a story of budgetary and bureaucratic politics producing a device that, however miraculous, wound up being slower, balkier and less useful than it might have been.
We Can See Clearly Now
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By the time my nurse reappeared, I was feeling miraculously chipper.
The Sun
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I have been experiencing restorative outages of up to fourteen hours per day through the use of this miraculous invention.
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The Church had to scrutinize every claim of a miraculous intervention, and rightly so.
GRACE
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Overnight in Colombia, we’re told right not just a few fender benders, which is pretty miraculous when you see the roadways.
CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2004
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Many witnesses described how they had seen him levitating at the altar or credited to him miraculous healing gifts.
COLLINS DICTIONARY OF SAINTS
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The strawberries actually had the miraculous perfume of local berries grown in season and little buttery croutons of fried brioche added another interesting crunch.
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The infant pulled through miraculously after having been severely burned.
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The most important form of folk painting is the retablo, which depicts a miraculous event.
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When, according to "Jimbo", the lake dried up, the climate would change and the valley with its dried up lakebed would become unbearably hot and cold and unlivable and almost immediately after Mr. Bentein left for Mazatlan, the lake miraculously refilled and now Jim is experiencing a water crisis in Mazatlan.
Water in Chapala
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It had become clear that my mother would not make another of her miraculous comebacks; the chief resident admitted that keeping her on the ventilator was a futile exercise.
In the Fullness of Time
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He relates in his writings that he developed some medicines which were almost miraculous cures.
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Pat managed to get 147 tapes and 100 books plus lots of magazines through customs in a miraculous way.
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Miraculously, Andrew arrived inside ten minutes, dispensing TLC and pain killing injections like manna from heaven.
FALLEN WOMEN
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Miraculously he never burned himself or set the house on fire.
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To attend meetings and live a normal life, I had to take a powerful, yet miraculous drug called Imitrex very regularly.
BuzzMaven Labs
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Another uncelebrated appointment, another master of the miraculous escape and another call for clean slates.
Times, Sunday Times
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For where words have had miraculous operaton, there hath beene alwaies the speciall providence, power and grace of God uttered to the strengthening of the faith of Gods people, and to the furtherance of the gospell: as when the apostle with a word slue Ananias and Saphira.
Archive 2008-02-01
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Miraculously we were ready to leave at seven o'clock sharp each day.
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But for me, above all else, it was his Schubert which was truly miraculous.
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At Rome he fulfilled the humble office of infirmarian in the convent of Ara Coeli; and his biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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A schoolboy miraculously survived a 25 000 - volt electric shock.
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But does that value outrank the work a neurosurgeon does to save someone's life, like Dr. Rhee's miraculous work that led to Rep. Giffords opening her eyes two days ago?
Bryce Covert: Wall Street Isn't Paid Enough
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It wasn't until he heard the first mewling cries of his child that he even dared to look up in wonder of that miraculous sound.
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In the intervening years the youth appeared miraculously to have flooded back into him.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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Of course, Ms. Blanchett, the archfiend with the bad accent, who miraculously survived the nuclear blast in Nevada (which is now referred to as New Mexico), wants Indy to translate for the Soviets, so she can discover the power of spiritual energy and control the universe.
Implausible <i>Indy</i>: Ike-Era Ford Fights Russians, Aliens
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Muthee has subsequently held leadership roles including serving as a board member of the World Prayer Center International, and currently as a Transformations Associate.; part of this Transformations "franchise" effort of the combined media, organizations, ministries, and businesses, has been a massive campaign to de-Catholicize Central and South America, glimpses of which can also be seen in the videos.; other significant international impact has resulted from their promotion of their claimed miraculous healing of AIDS in Uganda.; they have been particularly successful with their operations in Guatemala, Argentina, and Brazil.
Bruce Wilson: Sarah Palin Linked to Second "Witch Hunter"
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For somebody who has been back barely four months, her progress has been miraculous: she won the Washington Open and has reached the semis or quarters of five other tournaments.
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The largest and most valuable, had I been sensible of such things was a book of marvels by "the most miraculous mystagogue of nature": China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, by Athanasius Kircher.
Kitai
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While Jesus dwelt among men His glory was manifested in his gracious words and miraculous acts.
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The Church had to scrutinize every claim of a miraculous intervention, and rightly so.
GRACE
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Our champagne glasses were miraculously topped up at every opportunity and I'm so hopelessly out of practise at the heavy drinking lark now, that I was hopelessly sozzled by about 4pm.
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A total of 98 people complained to the ASA, citing the cartoon depiction of Christ and the Sacred Heart, the use of the term 'miraculous' and the fact that the advert was published on Maundy Thursday, close to Easter.
Evening Standard - Home
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He slammed into a dumpster, denting the side before dropping to the hard asphalt bruised, but miraculously unbroken.
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Gavin's voice sounds miraculous, the low baritone of it trembling in my already shaky spine, and I needed him here.
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my hand grasped the gun that was, miraculously, lying on the ground beside my finger tips
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The next day the miraculous body was shewn to the multitude, though it is honestly stated by the chronicler that the whole of it, including the face, was covered with linen, the only flesh visible being through a chink left in the cerecloths at the neck.
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Therefore, a miraculous act proves nothing, for it can be done through enchantment and sorcery.
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That it also boasts fluid, intuitive gameplay, and does not condescend to the audience by making the fighting too simple or automatic, is miraculous.
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Mary moved about the fittings and furnishings like she was returning to a room she'd left years ago, but which had miraculously remained unchanged.
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The burros, dull and harmless as they look to me, frighten Irineo's llamas so much that half bolt above and below the narrow trail, miraculously clinging to the steep slopes without rolling to the bottom.
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What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles; it was a miraculous world. G.K. Chesterton
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The tincture of gold known by the name of _Mademoiselle Grimaldi's potable gold_ enjoyed a wonderful reputation towards the close of the 18th century as an efficacious restorative and stimulant; and numerous instances of its all but miraculous powers were confidently adduced.
Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction
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In the basilica in Suyapa there is a tiny wooden image of her that is believed to have miraculous powers.
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On that day Couples' tee-shot to Golden Bell, the treacherous par three, clung miraculously to the bank of the Creek.
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Thus Hecataeus conceived the idea of puri - fying tradition of its miraculous elements and of doing so, so to speak, on a psychological basis.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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In the blinding glare of its detonation, everything seemed miraculously clear.
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The women's piety and sanctity is stressed by the authors of the lives as they present their audience with the often miraculous and always worthy events and visions of the houses 'members.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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But what if you could reduce the sense of isolation of millions of old people, provide an army of helpers in schools and hospitals and above all teach our anomic young people that they are part of something big and rather miraculous called British society?
Archive 2009-03-01
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It's miraculous the cat has survived - it must have used up a couple of its nine lives.
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The more miraculous parts of this account should be taken with a pinch of salt.
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He stood in reverential awe of himself; he had performed a miraculous feat.
Chapter 4
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At one stage it ripped through a flock of sheep, miraculously missing every one of the panicking beasts.
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And it records the moment his life was miraculously saved by his own fountain pen.
The Sun
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Yet his human journey exhibited many divine elements such as the immaculate conception, his fulfillment of many prophecies about the Messiah, and his performance of many miraculous signs.
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Yet wave upon wave of Royal Air Force bombers, engines humming gently, miraculously avoided the flak fired into the dark night sky.
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Freeman's troops rallied, held the Chinese off and miraculously survived.
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A show that has miraculously survived through low ratings and critical bashing for as long as it has deserves a better finale than this.
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His gifts were perfume, bilocation, prophecy, conversion, reading of the souls, spiritual healing, and miraculous cures.
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He took up drinking in earnest as a young artillery officer on his way to World War I when he discovered that alcohol miraculously transformed him from an awkward quarryman's son to a sophisticated boulevardier.
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This means that instead of a flour-based gravy as accompaniment, pot-roast meat can be served with the cooking sauce that has miraculously thickened all by itself.
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And, for God's sake, do not give in to that miserable fancy that because these stories are what you call miraculous, therefore they have nothing to do with you -- that Samson's strength came to him miraculously by God's Spirit, and yet yours comes to you a different way.
Twenty-Five Village Sermons
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It's crazy," Miller said this week, months into what he calls a miraculous recovery from cyanide and heroin poisoning.
Timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
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It boasts medieval pink buildings that perch miraculously atop towering white limestone cliffs at Corsica's most southern tip.
The Sun
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Our certainty, whether grounded in reason or miraculous signs, affords no occasion to trust.
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The ethos has little in common with that of science fiction; rather, it's a rhapsody on the miraculous benefits the Victorians were expecting their harnessing of electricity to bring to them.
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He calls me back in ten minutes, having miraculously spoken to the previously uncontactable vendor.
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And just as surely as his revelatory gaze saw through to the core of her, so she in her turn saw something miraculous in him.
SACRAMENT
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Ora recounts in charming detail her 20 miraculously unscathed years of family life, when she and her husband and boys were like a little underground cell in the heart of the 'situation.'
Mother tries to stay ahead of grief in David Grossman's "To the End of the Land"
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Even in its miraculous element it stands to some extent in contrast with all mythologies, where the marvelous has ever a predominant character of grotesqueness which is absent from New
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
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What many of them achieve with their pupils is nothing short of miraculous.
Taking Multi-Culturalism Too Far?
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Yet for it to have lasted so long is little short of miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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The effects of organ transplant surgery can seem miraculous.
Times, Sunday Times
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Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.
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Miraculously, the group of 15 Indians managed to elude the dragnet that was forming and escaped with the aid of local residents.
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A goose miraculously survived when two bolts fired from a crossbow went through its neck.
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Of course it is miraculous that the view outside my window is a palette of washed browns and greys, dripping with glittering raindrops.
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Ursus nodded cheerfully, his expression miraculously purged of any bloodlust.
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves
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A youth standing near the parked vehicle, had a miraculous escape from death.
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Lamb is a miraculous meat, robustly withstanding strong flavours, showcasing subtler vibes without overpowering them, brightened by fruit, bouncing off tomato, enlivened by herbs.
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She was swimming against real, measurable, miraculous progress.
Times, Sunday Times
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The military victory was as miraculous as the oil lasting for eight days.
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Lost in the jungle for several weeks, she miraculously survived its privations (hunger, thirst and multiple insect bites), although her two brothers and a nephew did not.
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For Albion, two successive Premiership seasons would be unprecedented and nothing short of miraculous.
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Two hours later, what had been the erect image of a gigantic coal – porter turned miraculously white, was now no more than a medley of disjected members; the quadragenarian torso prone against the pedestal; the lascivious countenance leering down the kitchen stair; the legs, the arms, the hands, and even the fingers, scattered broadcast on the lobby floor.
The Wrong Box
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So some two decades later he set out to transform the securities industry with a report that he hoped would expose its mountebankery and lead to a miraculous transformation.
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Since in due course it took from February until July to reach an acceptable compromise, it is difficult to follow how the submission of a detailed scheme in November would have produced such a miraculous result.
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As for the Angels 'delicate favourites, Iman likes the Sexy Little Things collection (think lots of lace and balconette bras), and sports a Miraculous Bra (which will boost a woman's bust by two cups) when she wants to "feel like a bombshell.
Toronto Sun
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The manager has already pulled off one miraculous escape from relegation in the Premiership.
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Miraculously, the droop in one of the leaves is gone.
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The other team seemed to have made a miraculous interception, because the coach suddenly looked stunned and confused.
NO BODY
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The main point in the picture is the rapid augmentation from a petty stream into a mighty river, not by the influx of side streams, but by its own self-supply from the sacred miraculous source in the temple [Henderson].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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An extinct script, such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Babylonian cuneiform or the glyphs of the ancient Maya of Central America, may strike us as little short of miraculous and bizarrely different from our own alphabetic scripts.
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He had been miraculously saved from almost certain death.
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But the woman driver had a miraculous escape after she was pulled by firefighters from the flattened motor.
The Sun
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Then, miraculously, one of the sentries ' heads bobbed up in the trench.
THE WHITE DOVE
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It will come as no surprise that there is no miraculous shortcut to losing weight or getting fitter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
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Exploring Mars requires no miraculous new technologies, no orbiting spaceports, and no gigantic interplanetary space cruisers.
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There has been a great deal of scepticism about how genuine this miraculous transformation can be.
Times, Sunday Times
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Those fields didn't miraculously appear there - they were lovingly hewn from the obdurate landscape by men like Willie Corduff and his ancestors.
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Jeter's experience with the critically acclaimed film has provided him with some fairly miraculous moments off-screen as well.
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A nurse who gets a splinter in her finger and seems to acquire miraculous powers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost miraculously, these structures were spared the ravages of the 1906 earthquake.
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Miraculously, no one was in the weeds; the roundsman, who stepped in wherever he was needed, did his job seamlessly; orders came up on time; the front and back of the house were perfectly in sync.
Georgia’s Kitchen
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And the sharp suits they miraculously acquire for their court appearance look the business, so it does not do to enquire too closely where on earth they materialise from in 'choky'!
Undefined
