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Synonyms for lees

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nounmatter that settles on a bottom or collects on a surface by a natural process

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nounthe sediment from fermentation of an alcoholic beverage

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that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud, chilling And killing my ANNABEL LEE.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we - Of many far wiser than we - And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE: -
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride In her sepulchre there by the sea - In her tomb by the side of the sea.
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The great hands would grasp her in another second--and then there was a sudden crashing of the underbrush behind her, a yellow, wrinkled face and a flying pig-tail shot past her, and the brave old Sing Lee grappled with the mighty monster that threatened her.
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The time came, in the month of August, when he engaged additional servants to assist Lee Sing and dared a house party in his Mill Valley bungalow.
Not stopping for slippers, pajama-clad, he burst through the door Lee Sing had so carefully locked, and sped down the stairs and out into the night.
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Chances are good that in an increasingly competitive worldwide wine bazaar, lees filtration is going to become a bigger concern for more and more wineries.
Wine from sludge: lees filtration
Lees' principle interest rests in recapturing the importance of individual agency.
Cities, Sin, and Social Reform in Imperial Germany
Lee is a member of the international group of investigators who have studied the boy since 1999 and now report their results in the June 24 New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
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On July 6, 1998, the IRS determined a deficiency in the Merritts' 1994 joint federal income tax liability, disallowing exclusion of the $129,000 independent contractor lee John later returned.
Gross income includes returned fees; advance litigation costs are loans
Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee Illustrated by Kadir Nelson Simon & Schuster, November 2002 $16.95, ISBN 0-689-83233-8
The Lees do the write thing. (celebrity children's books)
Aliene Lee and her daughter, Priscilla Lee Yazza, were watching television in Priscilla's trailer in Fort Defiance, on Arizona's Navajo Indian Reservation, the lights went out and the two women were confronted in the darkness by a man with a gun.
The natives are arrestless; the Justice Department has jurisdiction over Indian reservations, but is letting people get away with murder
Lee was a Christian gentleman, a Cavalier of the old order, the embodiment of chivalry.
Warrior and gentleman's gentleman: despite being a battle-hardened general, Robert E. Lee never lost his most admirable trait: his devotion to God, friends, duty, and honor
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