sup

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“And what college is sup- posed to do is to allow you to live more fully in your time.”

From MSNBC • Mar. 21, 2015

In Barn Dance, farm wives of 1850 prepare a picnic sup- per, children play and bicker, bashful hayseeds choose partners.

From Time Magazine Archive

A passage of double aisles surrounds it, with the arches that divide them sup- ported on very thick round columns, not clustered.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry

"Yes, Andre," I replied, "as long as the wind continues favorable the raft has decidedly the advantage; but sup- posing the wind shifts; what then?"

From The Survivors of the Chancellor by Verne, Jules

It was not till the third day that I re- turned to Tours; and the distance, traversed for the most part after dark, was even greater than I had sup- posed.

From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry