Word: riparian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very little need for such a muezzin in Georgian London." Disagreeing with a view that D.H. Lawrence celebrated sex alfresco while Americans kept to bedrooms, the doctor notes the abundance of contraceptives in brooks and rivers and concludes that "if Americans are not sylvan cohabitors, they are at least riparian." On Dr. William Carlos Williams, who Ober believes had a block against rewriting: "As a doctor, Williams may have buried his mistakes; as a poet, he published them." On the importance of wit and libertinism at the court of Charles II: "Men rose by their levity and women by their...
...Neigh boring Surinam also claims Guyanese territory in a dispute over riparian boundaries...
...novel Turpin believes that most people view such water as a static extension of their own property, "a background against which lawn furniture may repose." In Drifting, an antique-flavored narrative of his small-craft outings in Louisiana, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island, Jones asserts his ancient riparian rights to re-establish spiritual and public relations with the basic element that flows and quenches...