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It is a symbolic place where modern chess began: around the year 1485, the lazy, slow piece next to the king turned into a beautiful, fast-running, mad queen.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World of Karpov and Kasparov Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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Her voice washes over me like fast-running water, exhilarating and daunting all at once.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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It is a symbolic place where modern chess began: around the year 1485, the lazy, slow piece next to the king turned into a beautiful, fast-running, mad queen.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World of Karpov and Kasparov Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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It is a symbolic place where modern chess began: around the year 1485, the lazy, slow piece next to the king turned into a beautiful, fast-running, mad queen.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World of Karpov and Kasparov Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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It is a symbolic place where modern chess began: around the year 1485, the lazy, slow piece next to the king turned into a beautiful, fast-running, mad queen.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World of Karpov and Kasparov Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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Nothing moves on the river beyond, save for the fast-running tide.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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To encounter a boulder—or better yet, a field of boulders deposited by fast-running water last seen hundreds of thousands of years ago—is about as visually exciting as it gets.
First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011
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With fast-running, turbulent floods of water, the amount of sediment can even increase to the eighth (!) power of the velocity of the water.72 In other words, if a large quantity of fast-flowing water starts to flow three times as fast again, it can transport 6,651 (=38) times as much sediment.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Her voice washes over me like fast-running water, exhilarating and daunting all at once.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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It is a symbolic place where modern chess began: around the year 1485, the lazy, slow piece next to the king turned into a beautiful, fast-running, mad queen.
Lubomir Kavalek: Chess World of Karpov and Kasparov Lubomir Kavalek 2010
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