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Senior year, in another school, I had for my Trig teacher a Jesuit priest I'll call Father Brown, known to his students as "Pa Brown" or just "Pa."
Archive 2008-08-01 Bruce Schauble 2008
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Senior year, in another school, I had for my Trig teacher a Jesuit priest I'll call Father Brown, known to his students as "Pa Brown" or just "Pa."
Mathematical Formulations Bruce Schauble 2008
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"Stay where you are until it's down," called Father Brown to the boys.
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale The Merryvale Boys Alice Hale Burnett
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"Father Brown" had first made his appearance in magazines and these detective stories became the most purely popular of Gilbert's books.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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Kingsland to see Mr. Belloc; gathered Gilbert's boyhood friends of the Junior Debating Club in London and visited "Father Brown" among his Yorkshire moors.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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a priest to the city, commonly called "Father Brown," these Irish
Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors William Gannaway Brownlow 1841
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"Father Brown," said the lady, "I am going to tell you all I know, but
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Ah, I like the idea of Tom Ripley and Father Brown.
Crime-fiction team-ups Peter Rozovsky 2010
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And speaking of the Papist Father Brown and your boy, Iles?
Crime-fiction team-ups Peter Rozovsky 2010
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And don't miss how another critic/novelist, G.K. Chesterton, sent forth his sleuth, Father Brown, to "save the soul of detective fiction."
Archive 2010-02-28 Bill Crider 2010
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