Not found

NOT FOUND. These words are endorsed on a bill of indictment by a grand jury,.when they have not sufficient evidence to find a true bill; the same as Ignoramus. (q.v.)

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Most unpleasant of all was the first minute when, on coming, happy and good-humored, from the theater, with a huge pear in his hand for his wife, he had not found his wife in the drawing-room, to his surprise had not found her in the study either, and saw her at last in her bedroom with the unlucky letter that revealed everything in her hand.

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This is the ninth of October, and they have not found her yet: they will as soon find the Northwest Passage.

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He could not have been there, if he were not found there.

He was not found because he was not there during that time.

He would never have dared to attack her at that hour, if he had not found her alone.

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Pearl had not found the hour pass wearisomely while her mother sat talking with the clergyman.

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He had not found the fabled city but he believed it was to be found, and when he came home he wrote an account of his journey because some of his enemies said that he had never been to Guiana at all but had been hiding in Cornwall all the time.

Many fights and storms had he endured, many hardships suffered, but he had not found the Golden City.

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The eleventh corpse--that of a porter--was not found, although diligent search was made for it.

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Professor Stephen Hawking says that if humanity has not found a new planet within 200 years then we will be extinct.

Rush on to find another island

Wigneswaran to take early remedial action in regard to the two ministers who were not found guilty by the board of Inquire of the chief minister.

Punitive Action Against Two Ministers Not Found Guilty, Unwarranted - Sampanthan

MALAYSIA has said the search area for missing Flight 370 will be expanded by another 60,000 square kilometres (23,000 square miles) in the Indian Ocean if the airliner is not found by May.