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Examples
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Fitz is exposing a congery of lies – amongst which was a harmful truth about Plame/Wilson.
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He passed an area where they had ‘gone’ for them to the extent of pulling down a congery of old houses.
Swan Song 2004
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A street is no longer a congery of houses huddling shamefully together and terrified lest any one should look at them and laugh.
Mary, Mary James Stephens 1916
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Outside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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I could not sing their national song -- if a congery of states be a nation -- and I must confess I listened with frigid politeness to their singing of it.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Outside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities.
Vittoria — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868
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Outside the army the empire was a jealous congery of intriguing disaffected nationalities.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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I could not sing their national song -- if a congery of states be a nation -- and I must confess I listened with frigid politeness to their singing of it.
The Egoist George Meredith 1868
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Gascoigne Inlet and "Erebus and Terror Bay," a perfect congery of sledge-marks showed the spot used for the landing-place, or rendezvous, of Franklin's sledges.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848
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The Whale-Fish group consist of a congery of islets, of various shapes and sizes, with deep water channels between; the whole of granitic formation, with broad veins of quartz and masses of gneiss overlaying in various directions.
Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal; or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 Sherard Osborn 1848
hernesheir commented on the word congery
This word is the incorrectly supposed singular form of congeries, and should be avoided in speaking and writing.
November 22, 2010