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  • The company aims to break into large chain stores with its coffee, which will be sold under the name Forty Below Joe, and possibly with other nascent products, like low-calorie dots and vanilla yogurt dots.

    The Seattle Times 2011

  • Forty is just the number of years I've been around this burg.

    A Scintillating Rant About Small Flashing Lights « PubliCola 2010

  • "We'll be in Forty Mile in forty minutes, and then -- cursed little devil!"

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • I drove my four yoke of oxen across the Plains in Forty-nine and lost nary a one.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • "Like Argus of the Ancient Times," and told them of the great emigration across the Plains in Forty-nine.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • "We'll be in Forty Mile in forty minutes, and then -- cursed little devil!"

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • "Gold is where you find it, son, as I should know who was mining before you was born, 'way back in Forty-Nine," was his reply.

    LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

  • Sounds precisely like the true version of Kim Stanley Robinson's Khembalung in "Forty Signs of Rain": A small island off coast of India that is slowly being flooded by rising tides.

    New Kiribati 2008

  • "Like Argus of the Ancient Times," and told them of the great emigration across the Plains in Forty-nine.

    Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

  • I drove my four yoke of oxen across the Plains in Forty-nine and lost nary a one.

    Like Argus of the Ancient Times 1918

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