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I hope that you and your family will have a MAG-nificent Christmas season...
Forget politics in this season of joy: Here's Huckabee's Christmas message. Ann Althouse 2007
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I'm Veronica and I run the blog mag.nificent, from which you quoted my review of an amputee zine.
Devotees and me (closing Screw Bronze); the cage of stereotype plus a suicide! Elizabeth McClung 2007
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Among the matchbar's claims to fame is a full caipirinha menu the cherry caipirinha, which adds pulped, pitted cherries to the mix, is stupendous good and the "Match-nificent Seven," seven drinks named after the Magnificent Seven cast.
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003
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But then, Ezri had never been much of an espresso drinker-she put it in the same category as raktajino, which she detested-though Jadzia loved it, having been a regu-lar customer at the Cafe Roma on Earth and its mag-nificent brew when she was at the Academy.
Demons Of Air And Darkness DeCandido, Keith R. A. 2001
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One wall of the parlor was crystal, facing west, providing a mag - nificent view of sea and sky.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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"Consider it done, Madam," Reorx said with mag-nificent aplomb.
Dragons Of Summer Flame Weis, Margaret 1995
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In 1726 one of his descendants built the mag - nificent aqueduct that ensured the city's growth.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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In the Kosmos, he made mag - nificent surveys of the history of the subjective con - templation of nature, stimulated by descriptions of nature in literature, by landscape painting, and by exhibitions of exotic plants; and then of the objective understanding of nature attained through meditation, reason, enlarged horizons resulting from exploration, and invention.
ENVIRONMENT AND CULTURE CLARENCE J. GLACKEN 1968
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Then other discoveries, even more sensational, followed, leading to the mag - nificent synthesis of James Clerk Maxwell; in his theory the waves constituting light were made part of the great series of electromagnetic waves.
OPTICS AND VISION VASCO RONCHI 1968
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Down on the plain, a herd of six-legged animals with mag-nificent horns bolted when the Olympia passed over.
Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964
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