master
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He is depicted relaxing, but the intensity of his gaze “gives it a menacing feel,” said Gregory Rubinstein, Sotheby’s head of old master drawings.
The soldier hurried to lift the gate, his demeanor that of a dog who had just been beaten, trying to please the master who had beaten it.
From Literature
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“Oh yes, they were the masters of that trade! They’d travel the river and the creeks, set up camp on sandbanks from village to village, harvest all the clams they could find, and move on.”
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Born and raised in China, she has a master's in journalism from New York University, got her start covering U.S. real estate, and has won many awards for her China coverage.
Also hard to believe is how riders are mastering increasingly difficult aerial tricks.
From BBC
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