Do we know if secreted about his smalls he has a pair of boxer shorts in either the ancient or red tartan of his venerable clanspersons? |
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This year marks the centennial of the introduction of the venerable variety which was unveiled in England in 1899 by hybridizer John Kendall. |
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The police are also rediscovering the benefits of some of our more venerable instruments. |
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The first was a fine gold Tissot, bequeathed to me by my Uncle Harold, along with a venerable pair of tan brogues. |
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The venerable brown-bag lunch of sandwich, chips, cookies or fruit is as much a part of the American workplace as file cabinets and paper clips. |
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The venerable Sir Walter Scott, who self-consciously wrote romances, criticized Jane Austen for not being romantic enough. |
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I wait to see whether an even more venerable Caledonian diver will now come forward. |
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It was a wonderful afternoon, all of us upstarts, edgy and feisty, garnering the imprimatur of the venerable professor. |
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The thought of making money at the expense of these venerable institutions was hugely tempting. |
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They don't have the venerable institutions and structures of the two big parties. |
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But when that venerable team melted into the sunset, normal service was resumed. |
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Perhaps the most venerable and prestigious general scientific journal in the world is Nature. |
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Sendmail is one of the most venerable internet software packages still in widespread use. |
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He was also acutely aware of being part a long and venerable exegetical tradition. |
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And instead of sitting around the hearth reminiscing about our venerable ancestors, I usually end up praying by myself upstairs. |
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There is also a long and venerable family tradition of building and constructing. |
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We are honoured by being entrusted with the stewardship of this venerable company. |
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He was a man who was a wise as a venerable oak to some and as nutty as a fruitcake to others. |
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So there I was at The Commercial, the venerable Blues on Whyte, drinking a rum and coke and contemplating a distressful situation. |
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In the season's third major, the most venerable of golf's grand slam events, the game's major players are giving chase. |
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The building is a fine example of a Victorian venerable property, built in 1881 as a novitiate for the Sisters of Charity. |
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Not long ago the Decalogue was a venerable standard of morality acknowledged by all. |
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A few years back he went to Boston's venerable white-shoe law firm, Palmer and Dodge. |
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Most shippers storing bottles upright recork their most venerable vintages, say, once every 20 years. |
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In a spirit of festive spookery, I've been having a nose around the venerable story of the Campden Wonder. |
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In accepting the position last June, he took on the leadership of a venerable pressure group with 57,000 members. |
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It boasts fine restaurants, immaculate hotels and glitzy bars amidst its colonial villas and venerable pagodas. |
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The brick and stone courthouse with gambrel roofs, built in 1903, has some venerable old jacaranda trees for shade. |
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The Bloor, Toronto's venerable rep cinema, was packed for opening night film, Lolo's Child, by hometown director Romeo Candido. |
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So, for the sake of this venerable pageant, let's hope the hopefuls display gratitude and pulchritude, rather than crassitude and attitude. |
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This was put to use every autumn to power the large and venerable threshing machine, with its elevator and shaking, riddling sieves. |
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When new gamers foray onto the net, I guess they still drift over to the venerable newsgroup. |
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One venerable conjecture was that it began as a contemptuous reference to papal edicts known as bulls. |
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Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers! |
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By then, the venerable Ron Newman had given way to former U.S. national team coach Bob Gansler, but the Wizards woes continued. |
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The hugely expensive film bombed so badly that one of Hollywood's most venerable companies, United Artists, was destroyed. |
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What price is our venerable former Prime Minister prepared to have us pay to assuage the agony of his political tabanca? |
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When calling on the Gurukkal, don't expect to meet a venerable sage with wrinkles to testify the years of experience he had in life. |
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The unit has only ever operated one type of manned aircraft and that is the venerable Hawker Hunter. |
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Lee Petty, the venerable patriarch, died on April 5 at age 86 of complications from a stomach aneurysm. |
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The venerable toy firm today issued interim figures that would please even the most Scrooge-like of investors. |
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Now over 80 years old, she remains a Hollywood fashion plate and venerable legend. |
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The first stage is where a person is declared a Servant of God, the next is where the Church declares a person venerable. |
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For example, the venerable Everett Ferguson writes on ordination and the authority of the congregation in the early church. |
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Leading the charge against Graham was none other than Reinhold Niebuhr, the venerable professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. |
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Division technique...penetrated nearly all 17th century English instrumental forms, including the venerable polyphonic fancy. |
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Not that Alliance Trust, the venerable investment trust company, minds keeping its head below the parapet. |
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He offends progressives by minimizing the importance of venerable social villains such as poverty. |
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Computing individual hexadecimal digits using that formula relies on a venerable technique known as the binary algorithm for exponentiation. |
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Last week, a venerable Sevilian was found complaining that she saw no reason to give up the peseta and accept the Deutschmark. |
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Welcome to the newest twist in that venerable fashion institution known as the trunk show. |
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The venerable abbot is himself a traitor, while Fan Dabei, the drunken beggar, turns out to be a warrior with a mission. |
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Rather than impose preconceived plans on a venerable company with a distinct culture, he's going to listen first. |
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Nearly all the department stores dumped their venerable typefaces for blocky san-serif fonts. |
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In fact, Eminem seems constitutionally incapable of partaking in hip-hop's most venerable traditions. |
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Parallel universes are a venerable tradition in science fiction and fantasy. |
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All of these are venerable human institutions that we recently decided to change. |
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Creel had a venerable upright piano against the wall facing the gas fire, and huge speakers in the alcoves on either side of the chimney breast. |
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This last factor will weigh particularly heavily with Egypt's Mubarak, now the venerable elder statesman of the Arab world. |
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There is no notion of San Francisco's tumultuous and venerable gay history. |
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Now that fear of the mob has ascended to the most venerable circle of criticism. |
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Even Michelle Malkin's Twitchy.com devoted time to cataloguing praise for the venerable Cramer. |
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Japan's venerable old sport of sumo wrestling is a pretty macho endeavor. |
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Some are playing the electronic version of scrabble, one of the most venerable games around. |
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Gradually, as lascivious sapphic tendencies become apparent, the gulf in sexual mores between the youthful maid and her venerable employers becomes more pronounced. |
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Hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. |
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The Romanesque signaled venerable ancientness and might well have been combined with more up-to-date Italianate features in the formation of a retroactive antique style. |
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The lunch trade had slowed to a gaggle of cackling tourists at the venerable Peppermill restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. |
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It was a venerable and respected venue with a proud history that Arthur had taken possession of in a bid to bring something new to London's theatreland. |
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On the very first episode of that venerable program, Jock Ewing gave his son, J.R., a tart-tongued lesson about tact and subtlety. |
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Fascinated throughout his career by venerable poetic fixed forms such as the sonnet, the triolet, and the Malayan pantoum, Jouet chose to invent a new fixed form. |
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At one time it was unchurched altogether, then restored to a certain status, and again Cromwell degraded the venerable pile to the level of a stable. |
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Manhattanites are concerned that a decade of Bloombergian rent increases now threatens their venerable dining scene. |
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The venerable Disneyland Hotel has transformed much of its outdoor space into a never-never land with a pirate ship, a mermaid lagoon, and tropical landscaping. |
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The venerable A-level celebrates its 54th birthday this year. |
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An attendant holds you while you plant a quick one on the venerable stone. |
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John's Call, the venerable gelding who rose from obscure steeplechase races to two Grade 1 victories and the brink of a championship at the age of nine, has come to an end. |
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It's now the Electric Fetus, a venerable head shop and record store. |
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The oblique back view of the cheval mirror in Boucher's picture evokes a convention with a long and venerable history in painter's self-portraits. |
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Walking up from College Street towards the gargoyled doors of University College, one is entitled to feel that this is indeed a venerable institution of higher learning. |
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Thousands of tulips, pansies and forget-me-nots, together with venerable lilacs, wisteria, spireas and deutzias dominate the spring show of flowers. |
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The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring. |
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The moated ramparts, the embattled towers, and the trophied halls, are magnificent and venerable, but useless. |
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There is no subgenre more venerable than the romantic comedy. |
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Hobbes' hard primitivism may have been as venerable as the tradition of soft primitivism, but his use of it was new. |
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And, as faggery was an abuse too venerable and sacred to be touched by profane hands, he lodged no idle complaints. |
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The Origines also spoke of how not only Rome, but the other Italian towns were venerable, and that the Romans were indeed superior to the Greeks. |
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This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme. |
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A white house set like a dice on a rock already venerable with the scars of wind and water. |
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The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature. |
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In 321, he legislated that the venerable Sunday should be a day of rest for all citizens. |
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The provenance of the Code appealed to scholars who saw in the Holy Roman Empire a revival of venerable precedents from the classical heritage. |
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Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds. |
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The Byzantine Empire considered Constantine its founder and the Holy Roman Empire reckoned him among the venerable figures of its tradition. |
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In 321, he legislated that the venerable day of the sun should be a day of rest for all citizens. |
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We salute a venerable lineage of strong women, big hair, and drama. |
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He compared the venerable facility to The Palestra in Philadelphia, where the crowd also is right on top of the action. |
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Even the venerable cytoxicity test, which has been a staple for at least 20 years, is undergoing changes. |
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Airborne pollution from nearby factories assaults the venerable marble statuary and mausolea. |
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A more simplistic example of self-correcting forces is the venerable law of supply and demand. |
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Iran is a demographically young country and a culturally venerable one. |
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The venerable Sachems now returned to the ballroom, where they tripped the light fantastic toe until the hour far. |
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This vividly illustrated science fiction graphic novel puts you into the cockpit of the venerable Soyuz spacecraft as it lifts off on an odyssey of discovery and adventure. |
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Some universities were initially resistant to this change, considering it a displacement of a venerable tradition for the pure sake of globalization. |
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Much of the venerable gallery's ethos is predicted here, from the tone of amused overripeness, to the accent on instantaneity and life as cinematic. |
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When the venerable rollerskate was reincarnated as shock-resistant polyethylene boots holding one row of fast-spinning, resilient plastic wheels, skating was reborn as well. |
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The latest of a venerable franchise of docu-soaps, it opens, like its predecessors, with a voiceover giving the audience the lay of the promised land. |
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What's unique perhaps about Africa is our particular practice of gerontocracy, a venerable tradition that can nevertheless threaten to silence the voice of the young. |
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It is characteristic of Carter that he often presented his biggest, rangiest inventions in the venerable genres of the concerto and the string quartet. |
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Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage. |
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Paul the Deacon then referred to him as venerable consistently. |
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Where are Uncle Isaac and Aunt Emily, And old Towny Kincaid and Sevigne Houghton, And Major Walker who had talked With venerable men of the revolution? |
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Teachers of grammar and writing often rely heavily on traditional analyses, and it may be the case that FANBOYS has gained credibility through a long and venerable history. |
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Particularly, since Arad's venerable, highly respected Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Lipsker was also a Chabad hasid, this development seemed eminently sensible. |
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The effect is that of seeing colourful songbirds, flying insouciantly around a massive and venerable building on a day of shifting light and shadow. |
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Despite his relatively venerable age of 55, his son, John, Earl of Carrick, grew impatient and assumed the reins of government as Lord Lieutenant. |
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