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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Likelier to be 269 spelling errors than anything else – in writing such a word I often find myself having to consciously avoid automatically using the more familiar term. There is, of course, an outside chance that some users may pity or feel some faint disapproval for those engaged in peripatetic activities.
... and who aligned himself early with the peripathetic or primitive attitudes of such figures as the mariner, the nomad, the traveller, and the atavist, ...
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anthropological paradigm Judith Okely had worked out the notion of the peripathetic. community: “There is not a sole uniform Roma culture, but there are …
www.delphoi.hu/engpage/engdownl-pdf/school-recenz.pdf
... and ties it round the neck of a sick child or round the arm of a sick woman, whom faith in Allah urges into the presence of the peripathetic healer. ...
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“Petropolis bursts with artful details of an immigrant’s peripathetic youth and quest for home – the grappling for the strong woman inside a lost girl.” ...
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