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Leonid   Listen
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Leonid  n.  (Astron.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.





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... suppose I'm an incurable romantic. You see, I hate to see you go." Academician Amschel Mayer was a man in early middle years; Dr. Leonid Plekhanov, his contemporary. They offset one another; Mayer thin and high-pitched, his colleague heavy, slow and dour. Now ...
— Adaptation • Dallas McCord Reynolds


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