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  • O'Grady stamped and swore with rage, and calling Furlong, sent him to inform the sheriff how riotous the crowd were, and requested him to have the trumpeter seized.

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832

  • All her pistol practice was with a view to call Furlong to the "last arbitrament" for this slight to her house.

    Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

  • 'Furlong' = furrow-long: it thus came to mean the length of a field, and is now a measure of length.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • The onlookers don't truly understand what the point of Katie Price's new show is; they're just aware that teenagers keep appearing out of a changing booth on to a stage, where they're insulted unpleasantly by Katie and judges Bayo Furlong and Glen Middleham, before being ordered back into the booth to take their clothes off, and then insulted again.

    Signed By Katie Price: Grace Dent's TV OD 2011

  • But the shooting took place across state lines, and the current system does not allow the Carson City Sheriff's Office to know about an involuntary mental health commitment in California if a person in Nevada seeks a license for an automatic weapon, Sheriff Ken Furlong said.

    Wounded diner aids others in Nev. shooting 2011

  • One complaint is why don't they bring Edward Furlong back as John Connor, they should've done it in 3 and 4 or something like that.

    TERMINATOR 5 and 6 Ideas From TERMINATOR/T2 Scribe William Wisher – Collider.com 2010

  • The President of VANOC, John Furlong, summed up the underlying problem spendidly, if inadvertently, in comments after the court decision: "It's an unhappy day for these girls."

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • With NHS waiting lists longer than many expect, patients are opting to pay for hip and knee replacements, cataract removal and hernia repairs in particular Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

    NHS rationing boosts private healthcare firms – report 2011

  • Roger Bart, who played Desperate Housewives' crazed pharmacist, and two actors who have toiled with pharmaceuticals and the law in real life — Edward Furlong Terminator 2 and Tom Sizemore, have been cast in suspicious roles.

    Keck's Exclusives: Eric McCormack Summer Series Lines Up Eclectic Guest Stars 2011

  • It's still unclear whether the AK-47 that Sencion used to shoot 11 people was an automatic or semi-automatic weapon, Furlong said.

    Wounded diner aids others in Nev. shooting 2011

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