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  • Remember I make fifteen percent from all those lovely Big Thing Bonanzas so I'm VERY interested in you being a success.

    Miss Snark, the literary agent Miss Snark 2005

  • Somehow, the biplane looked more at home amongst the motley collection of Supercubs, Cessna 150s and Stearmans that lodged there than it did surrounded by sleek Bonanzas and Sky Kings, not to mention F-14s and F/A-18s.

    Typhoon Season Douglass, Keith 2000

  • But when we consider the vast area of the Yukon and the length of the rivers, and that paying placer gold is only found in spots, we need not wonder that discovery is slow and that prospectors are still looking and hoping for other Bonanzas and Eldorados.

    The Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Yukon 1912

  • We will endeavor to induce the home people to copy after the wise example of a few of our leading citizens and buy up oil rights before the kings of Bonanzas from the

    Mr. Opp Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

  • Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire; those virtuous Bonanzas, where the soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscovered; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the grizzly muses undisturbed.

    The Silverado Squatters 1884

  • Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire; those virtuous Bonanzas, where the soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscovered; chaparral conceals, thicket embowers them; the miner chips the rock and wanders farther, and the grizzly muses undisturbed.

    The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Groups scheduled to descend on Oshkosh en masse include the Piper Cherokees, the Bonanzas, Cessnas, Mooneys,

    The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines 2010

  • Tornado Alley Turbo has been at the forefront of state-of-the-art turbonormalizing systems for such aircraft as the TCM I0-520 or I0-550 powered Cessna 185s and Bonanzas.

    Aero-News Network 2010

  • Beechcraft Bonanzas, stayed at upscale hotels, ate at the best restaurants, wore identical blouses and skirts on the road and had their hair styled courtesy of Hutcherson, who also provided the satiny blue-and-gold uniforms.

    NYT > Home Page By JERÉ LONGMAN 2010

  • "Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire, who virtuous Bonanzas, where the soil has sublimated under sun and stars to something finer, and the wine is bottled poetry: these still lie undiscovered."

    Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories Staff Writer 2010

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