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  • I found that playing without the stylis is much easier … Almost like playing any FPS involving a controller

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: 6-19-2006 2006

  • The Carpentaria lerista (Lerista stylis) is found mainly on the Pellew Islands, the adjacent mainland, and Groote Eylandt to the north.

    Carpentaria tropical savanna 2008

  • It is not only, but mainly, due to Panofsky, that one can venture to call “iconographical” that period of art history as a historical discipline, which followed the Second World War, and to oppose it to the “stylis - tic” one which preceded it.

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • It may be distinguished by the following character: -- Grevillea (Plagiopoda) neglecta, foliis pinnatifidis subtus niveis; laciniis linearibus, stylis glabris.

    Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

  • PYRUS _spectabilis_ umbellis sessilibus, foliis ovali oblongis serratis lævibus, unguibus calyce longioribus, stylis basi lanatis.

    The Botanical Magazine Vol. 8 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

  • And with handwriting recognition, you can write out your texts with the stylis that fits snug in the back of the phone.

    Pressemitteilung WebService - Pressemitteilungen & Pressemeldungen kostenlos 2009

  • It was a "no *****" answer that the stylis would be replaced with the Wiimote.

    QJ.NET 2009

  • MSS.); appresso-subsericesa, foliis pinnatifidis bipinnatifidisque, laciniis angustissime linearibus elongatis marginibus arcte reflexis subtus concoloribus, racemis elongatis secundis densifloris, floribus subverticillatis, perianthiis pedicellisque tomentosis, folliculis oblique ovatis tomentosis sessilibus, stylis glabris. —

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • MS.); ramis angulatis pubescenti-sericeis, foliis rigidis angustissime linearibus elongatis semiteretibus acutis glabris marginibus revolutis, racemis ovatis multifloris, pedicellis perianthiisque sericeis, ovariis sessilibus longissime albosericeis, stylis glabris, folliculis oblique ovatis sericeo-tomentosis.] 111 [K.?

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

  • MS.); ramis angulatis pubescenti-sericeis, foliis rigidis angustissime linearibus elongatis semiteretibus acutis glabris marginibus revolutis, racemis ovatis multifloris, pedicellis perianthiisque sericeis, ovariis sessilibus longissime albosericeis, stylis glabris, folliculis oblique ovatis sericeo-tomentosis.] [***** K.?

    Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823

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