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Examples
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So, after running into heavy opposition among Congressional Democrats and growing public hostility to his plan, Mr. Obama has now recast the debate as an attack on insurance companies, with the president serving as savager-in-chief.
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I can't work out which I'm more impressed by, the ingenuity of the laser guided slingshot or the savager intent of the coke can disguise!
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Mynheer diminishing fourscore. savager seducers fatness
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‘But,’ said Wegg, possibly with some slight perception to the foregoing effect, ‘your speaking countenance remarks, Mr Venus, that I’m duller and savager than usual.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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Mynheer diminishing fourscore.savager seducers fatness
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"Not a thing, Ma'am -- not a thing bigger or savager than a jackrabbit," declared Cowboy Jack.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's Laura Lee Hope
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The rocks became savager, huger, even more sharp and more angular.
Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917
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"Shoot, sir, shoot, or it'll grow out a noo head and tail and be worse and more savager than ever."
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
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The deeper, the narrower, the savager, the Alpine gorge, usually the fuller and the swifter the stream that runs through it.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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In fact, Barbican and his companions had seen nothing drearier or savager in the dreariest and savagest of lunar landscapes than the scenes occasionally presented to Marston and his friends in their headlong journey on the track of the great Pacific Railroad.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
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