Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations –
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database of over 18,000 people. Biographical details include birth and death
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index of over 3300 clichés. Engine returns phrases corresponding to entries.
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Dictionary
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Philosophy of Mind –
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Large
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Information Please –
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NASA Thesaurus –
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Roget's Thesaurus
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Electronic version of print publication searchable by headword or full text. With hypertext cross references.
Over
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Words of
Art –
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