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  • They joined each other, they crisscrossed, they fanned into every corner of the parchment; then words began to blossom across the top, great, curly green words, that proclaimed: Messrs. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs Purveyors of Aids to Magical Mischief-Makers are proud to present THE MARAUDER'S MAP It was a map showing every detail of the Hogwarts castle and grounds.†  (source)
  • I would have liked to say, "I'm a doctor," to those who asked me what I did, doctors being the current purveyors of magic and miracle.†  (source)
  • They were purveyors of an innately flawed kind of democracy, where only the wealthy were elected, where their voices were heard loudest, where they passed their seats in Congress to whatever similarly entitled person they deemed appropriate.†  (source)
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  • All minds except Father's, that is, who frequently takes the name of Brother Fowles in vain, feeling certain now that all the stones in his path were laid by this deluded purveyor of Christian malpractice.†  (source)
  • But Fox and the other purveyors of conventional wisdom turned out to be wrong.†  (source)
  • If I'd met him as Jason Jenks or Jason Scott, legitimate lawyer, would I ever have unearthed J. Jenks, purveyor of illegal documents?†  (source)
  • He viewed them as instruments for the uneducated, and purveyors of sinister influences and vulgar ideas.†  (source)
  • A close passing look had revealed it to be a Stromberg Carlson, which she assumed to be Swedish until Bronek—a simple-seeming but canny fellow Polish prisoner who worked as a handyman in the Commandant's house and was a chief purveyor of gossip and information—told her it was an American machine, captured from some rich man's joint or foreign embassy to the west and transported here to take its place amid the mountainous tonnage of booty assembled with frenzied mania for pelf from all the plundered habitations of Europe.†  (source)
  • Unlike Melquiades' tribe, they had shown very quickly that they were not heralds of progress but purveyors of amusement.†  (source)
  • But in view of the greediness of hate for patrolmen, it hardly needed a purveyor to feed Claggart's passion.†  (source)
  • They didn't care if you had a nice day, and yet were as deeply American in their own way as any purveyors of Speedee Service.†  (source)
  • IX The community of fowls to which Tess had been appointed as supervisor, purveyor, nurse, surgeon, and friend made its headquarters in an old thatched cottage standing in an enclosure that had once been a garden, but was now a trampled and sanded square.†  (source)
  • ....but Dr. Pritchett said that our culture is dying because our universities have to depend on the alms of the meat packers, the steel puddlers and the purveyors of breakfast cereals.†  (source)
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