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  • Meanwhile, MI5 agent Diana Calthrop is leading a covert operation.

    The best recent books: Spy, Military, Govt & High Tech Thrillers 2009

  • = Hollway-Calthrop (H.C.) =, late of Balliol College, Oxford; Bursar of

    A Selection of Books Published by Methuen and Co. Ltd. October 1910

  • He called his colleague, Captain Calthrop, over, and the two operated together, the one amputating the arm and the other the leg.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Captain Calthrop was grumbling at the tedium of the work when his anæsthetist lit upon a happy thought and said:

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • "Oh, Captain Calthrop, you really are _too_ funny!"

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Captain Calthrop was attending to a "belly case" -- he had cut a longitudinal slit in his patient's abdomen and both his hands were groping inside it, buried up to the wrists, while the stomach-wall heaved up and down with the breathing of the unconscious man.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Then Captain Calthrop broke away and danced by himself, kicking his legs up in the air.

    Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924

  • Some years ago there appeared a book by Dion Calthrop called "King Peter," which illustrates very fully the effect of story-telling.

    The Art of the Story-Teller 1915

  • He had determined in a flash to make the man ship's chaplain, that Calthrop might come into close contact with other spiritual organisms and not think too exclusively of his own.

    The Cruise of the Jasper B. Don Marquis 1907

  • Abernethy, Kuroki, Elmer, Calthrop, George the Greek, and Farnsworth dug for an equal length of time.

    The Cruise of the Jasper B. Don Marquis 1907

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