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Examples
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So we have the potential of an outlander becoming Master and that's very hard on the demense.
Chalice by Robin McKinley John Loyd 2010
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The demense of Willowlands has a new Chalice and the new Master is coming back from the priests of Fire.
Chalice by Robin McKinley John Loyd 2010
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This time I entered her demense as she stood at a window opening on a world of wet gloom.
The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985
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What happened was, the Rebel attacked Limper's headquarters while he was away from his demense trying to undermine Soulcatcher.
The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985
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She couldn't tell me much more, except that Juniper is the demense of a Duke Zimerlan, and he appealed to the Lady a year ago (just a while before the Captain's courier letter would have left Charm) for help solving a local problem.
Shadows Linger Cook, Glen 1984
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Yet he dreamed of ending the old killing ways, the traditional desert ways, at least in his own demense.
The Fire In His Hands Cook, Glen 1984
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You’re right that there needs to be an alternative to making the police the fall guys for failing to reverse a social situation way beyond the scope of their demense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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You’re right that there needs to be an alternative to making the police the fall guys for failing to reverse a social situation way beyond the scope of their demense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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i am going to bicycle to the chapel and hear a storyteller. if i have it in me i may also proceed on to the lair of jiji lurko and the house of the prince that lies beyond even that distant demense.
robotsarered Diary Entry robotsarered 2004
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You’re right that there needs to be an alternative to making the police the fall guys for failing to reverse a social situation way beyond the scope of their demense.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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