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  • verb Present participle of librate.

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  • Whilst I thus administered justice to innumerable multitudes, the birds of the air librating over me served as a canopy from the rays of the sun; my people flourished, and my palace rose to the clouds; I erected a temple to the

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • He was a courteous little man, with a courtesy librating on a knife-edge of deflection towards obsequiousness on the one hand and condescension on the other, for neither of which, however, was his friend Herbert an object.

    St. George and St. Michael Volume I George MacDonald 1864

  • He was a courteous little man, with a courtesy librating on a knife-edge of deflection towards obsequiousness on the one hand and condescension on the other, for neither of which, however, was his friend Herbert an object.

    St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald 1864

  • But to borrow a term from astronomy, it is a librating mesothesis: for it may verge more to likeness as in painting, or more to difference, as in sculpture.

    Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Whilst I thus administered justice to innumerable multitudes, the birds of the air librating over me served as a canopy from the rays of the sun; my people flourished, and my palace rose to the clouds; I erected a temple to the

    The History of Caliph Vathek William Beckford 1801

  • Feature: treadle folding, save room and convenience speedup, baking, turning well, and simulative librating/waving.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Feature: treadle folding, save room and convenience speedup, baking, turning well, and simulative librating/waving.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Automation: to automate the process, wherever practically feasible, thereby "time-librating the buyer, contract engineer, the field engineer, etc."

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows graham0921 2010

  • Feature: treadle folding, save room and convenience speedup, baking, turning well, and simulative librating/waving.

    ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds 2010

  • Mapless: Alf Mabrouk, I think its really librating to work in something you like and have passion for ...

    Qwaider Planet 2008

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