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hard-favoured
ˈhard-favoured, a. arch. [See hard a. 13 and favour n. 9.] Having a hard or unpleasing ‘favour’, appearance, or look; ill-favoured, ugly.1513 More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 758 Richard the thirde sonne..was..hard favoured of visage. a 1592 Greene & Lodge Looking Glasse Wks. (Rtldg.) 141/1 As hard...
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unshowy
unˈshowy, a. (un-1 7.)1838 Lytton Alice iii. vi, There was another, equally hard-favoured and unshowy,..and that virtue was Justice.
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Alan Morrow
A hard working tough ruckman who took on a ruck role when Carl Ditterich missed the 1966 Grand Final due to suspension. Morrow was injured early in the 1965 Grand Final, the favoured Saints losing the match in part due to missing Morrow.
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Eliza Fletcher
William Mason, then a York celebrity, especially on account of his "Monody" upon his wife's death, but was shocked at seeing him "a little fat old man of hard-favoured
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flaxenish
flaxenish, a. rare. (ˈflæksənɪʃ) Also 7 flexinish. [f. flaxen a. + -ish.] Somewhat flaxen.1661 Peacham Compl. Gent. 167 A dark flexinish hair. 1662 J. Bargrave Pope Alex. VII (1867) 111 A hard-favoured, lean man, tall, with a thin-haired flaxenish beard.
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Hemicordylus capensis
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Their specialized adaptation to steep rock faces is believed to have favoured their agility and lightly armored anatomy. References
Hemicordylus resurrected: Stanley et al, 2011, Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata
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Buckler's Hard
Its geography also favoured the development of shipbuilding, as the hamlet possessed access to a sheltered but navigable waterway with gravel banks capable Shipbuilding at Buckler's Hard declined in the nineteenth century.
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When do native speakers favour Vことができる rather than the potential form? I have heard from some native speakers that for some verbs, it is more common to use the phrase V rather than the potential form in everyday speec...
It also signals that the speaker tried hard. I guess it adds a sort of emphasis as it's more elaborate than the shorter form.
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Karl Kaspar von der Leyen
He was elected the successor of the then 86-year-old Archbishop Philipp Christoph von Sötern, but this was rejected as Philipp Christoph was the favoured The consequences of the recently ended Thirty Years' War presented the new archbishop with many hard tasks, for example, the population of the archiepiscopal
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Oji Umozurike
As a member of the commission, he worked hard in promoting human rights in the continent. However, he was less critical on matters affecting municipal restriction of human rights of Africans, mostly because he favoured a balance between the
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Craigleith, Edinburgh
The 350-million-year-old Carboniferous Craigleith sandstone was used extensively in construction because it was a hard-wearing composite. Because of its hardness, Craigleith Sandstone was also favoured for cutting stones used to make cut glass during the Victorian era.
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Omphalocarpum elatum
The fruits are favoured by elephants, the only animals able to break through the hard shell. Fruits grow from the trunk, are flattened sub-globose in shape (oblate spheroid), some 15 x 8 cm, with a hard exocarp and whitish pulp, holding numerous
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Abdullah Qutb Shah
Abdullah worked hard to negotiate reasonable terms of surrender but the Mughals forced him into accepting severe conditions. He was also quite interested in mathematics that although being a Muslim, he favoured many Europeans who excelled in mathematics.
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Hard Rain (band)
After a quiet period Clarkin announced the end of Hard Rain. The band released a single in the much-favoured country of Germany "Stop Me From Loving You".
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A Multitude of Angels
John Fordham of The Guardian commented that, "Jarrett has always favoured exhaustive documentation, but the intensity, variety, and astonishing technical Garratt of PopMatters wrote that, "The four-disc box set A Multitude of Angels is the new turning point in Jarrett's career where he pushed himself too hard
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