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  • During the fifteen minutes it had taken for them to make their farewells and drive in total silence back to Pretty Point, her need for an angry con-frontation with him had disintegrated.

    A Secret Vengeance Lee, Miranda 2001

  • Khisanth's talk with Jahet had left her in no mood for con-frontation with the other dragons, but the lowest ranking dragon could ill afford to be openly insubordinate now.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

  • There was a tense con-frontation between Ryo and a group of net - and stinger-wielding soldiers.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Pre - cipitated in the extreme form of “ministerialism” when the socialist Alexandre Millerand accepted a post in the Radical cabinet of 1899, the discussion was nar - rowed to the political question of cooperation with bourgeois organizations, and avoided ideological con - frontation.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968

  • One example is Garp's childhood con - frontation with Bonkers the dog.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • I know that you don’t shy away from confrontation (or at least blog-frontation) but this just seems like needless (and perhaps unjustified) muckraking.

    Is DFW Washed Up? : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2006

  • "Peeler and Rundle have told me about your fihrst con-frontation with the young man.

    Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995

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