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Meanings of practical shape in English

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Usage of practical shape in English
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As the thought flashed quickly across his brain it lingered, taking practical shape.
The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood
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What is the practical shape, and what are the added dangers?
The Lair of the White Worm
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Every item of our present-day civilisation has been 'imagined' before taking practical shape.
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance
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The Mormon policy toward the surveyors soon took practical shape.
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
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The deliberations that succeeded took a sufficiently practical shape.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10
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And those ideas had in some sort of way, for good or ill, taken practical shape.
The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
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All three said to themselves-Experimentsmust be tried before the discovery can take any practical shape.
Eve and David
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A little incident has perhaps had its effect in quickening these speculative ideas into a practical shape.
The Lieutenant and Commander / Being Autobigraphical Sketches of...
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The doctrine that all land was held of the King was now put into a practical shape.
William the Conqueror
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The greeting of the Mormons in Illinois, in its practical shape, had both a political and a business reason.
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Y...
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This was the earliest cylinder and piston steam engine and his plan took practical shape in Newcomen's atmospheric engine.
Steam, Its Generation and Use
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The Emperor returned to Germany, where a strong desire for peace had grown up and was taking practical shape.
The Church and the Empire / Being an Outline of the History of t...
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It was he who had given it a practical shape by suggesting the possibility of intercepting at sea the north-bound steamer.
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
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No time was lost in giving practical shape to the policy outlined at Craigavon, and in taking steps to give effect to it.
Ulster's Stand For Union
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In his early days his sympathy had taken poetic form, and now at last it had an opportunity of assuming a more practical shape.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV
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There is a hatred of Prussia in other parts of Germany, but coupled with so much fear that it will never take practical shape.
My Four Years in Germany
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