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  • Moviegoers across California today watched a five-minute political short distributed to theaters throughout the state by MGM (although Metro's name ap-peared nowhere on it).

    Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From 1934 Campaign: Irving Thalberg's 'Attack Ad' vs. Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010

  • And indeed I beheld graces in her then, that I had before resolved to shut my eyes against; her rank next to princely; her fortune high as her rank; obstacles from religion, country, that had ap-peared to me insuperable, removed by themselves; and no apprehension left of a breach of the laws of hospitality, which had, till now, made me struggle to behold one of the most amiable and noble-minded of women with indifference.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Another faint rustle of leaves and the occasional snapping of a twig warned that the enemy was on the move, and shortly after, the men ap-peared filing cautiously down the slope below them, flitting from bits of cover to their next position.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • The Hirogen currently stood at the center of the bridge, operating what ap-peared to be a general-purpose operations console.

    Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001

  • Depape had had no trouble following the young culls 'backtrail; they had come east on the Great Road the whole way from New Canaan, it ap-peared, and at every town where they had stopped, they had been marked.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • One moment the end of the object ap-peared solid; the next, it displayed an opening.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • Several had neither feathers nor scales and ap-peared to be little more than fleshy blobs on legs.

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • When he ap-peared before Solomon, he was a squat monster, no bigger than a dwarf.

    Practical Demonkeeping Moore, Christopher, 1957- 1992

  • Born and raised a fisherman, Emien preferred never to ignore hunches, however illogical they ap-peared.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • A woman's face ap-peared, circled by braided coils of hair the color of frost.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

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