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  • I got was sent in Nov. I came back to the Stalag with more clothes than I ever carried in my life, a great asset here, great to meet up with the old friends, Cranny Hearn & others.

    Ron Cridge 2010

  • In the process of researching this piece, she came upon an article entitled "Every Nook and Cranny," written by Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor.

    The Growth of Corporate Power: A Crucial Element Behind the Rise of Bushite Fascism 2007

  • Leeward Cranny ... wasn't he married to Carnie Roofer briefly in the seventies?

    Like a Day Without Sunshine... Slimbolala 2005

  • And, in the Cranny of Small Joys, my first aubergine is peeping purple and blushing from its green prepuce.

    Classical gas slimmeroftheyea 2006

  • Yesterday, The Globe's TV columnist John Doyle, writing from the vantage point of what he calls his “TV Cranny,” found this effort positively “creepy.

    Daimnation!: CBC's Mansbridge takes on Globe's Doyle 2006

  • Lord Cranworth, after the amalgamation of law and equity, was for some time in the habit of going to sit with the new judges in order to familiarize himself with the reformed practice, whereupon some one asked Lord Westbury, ` ` Why does ` Cranny 'go to sit with the judges?' 'to which Westbury answered, ` ` Doubtless from a childish fear of being alone in the dark.' '

    [Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White 1906

  • It was truly the most open farce, and I wondered that the lawyer should care to keep it up; but, after all, it was quite in the taste of that age, when there were two parties in the state, and quiet persons, with no very high opinions of their own, sought out every Cranny to avoid offence to either.

    Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour 1886

  • Awoke sleepy and dull, but felt much happier after prayers; lost my temper once or twice with the men; I feel that I am unable of myself to do anything aright; read Luke 15, with Cranny and prayed; in the evening I became unhappy from the thoughts of all my former sins.

    A sketch of the life of Capt. Hedley Vicars, the Christian soldier, Catherine Marsh 1863

  • Kettle of boiling Water into the Cranny wherein the harmlesse Creature lay, and scalded it to Death; and, the next Day, became as deaf as a

    Mary Powell & Deborah's Diary Anne Manning 1843

  • Glen Cranny from the Queensland Law Society said the appeals would take time.

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010

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