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n. - A small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina.

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  • Stein B, Volans G. Dixarit overdose: the problem of attractive tablets.
  • Like John Adams, Volans is something of a minimalist in his use of repeating patterns but like Adams he's very much a "post-minimalist."
  • Or you mean Nolans but Volans, an alibi, do you Mutemalice, suffering unegoistically from the singular but positively enjoying on the plural?
  • At the editing stage, Henry Volans at Faber was a font of sage suggestions while Trevor Horwood cleaned and polished the manuscript with perspicacity and good humor.
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