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  • She called Lingard father, gently and caressingly, at each of his short and noisy visits, under the clear impression that he was a great and dangerous power it was good to propitiate.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

  • She called Lingard father, gently and caressingly, at each of his short and noisy visits, under the clear impression that he was a great and dangerous power it was good to propitiate.

    Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890

  • W. See likewise a good note on the Roman wall in Lingard’s History of England, vol.i. p. 40, 4to edit —

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Ann Lingard, novelist, former scientist, and founder of SciTalk - a site that helps writers connect with scientists.

    Why Science is Important Peggy 2009

  • Schools are after all specific cultural and historical sites with “their own logics of practice” (Lingard, Hayes Martin and Christie 2003).

    C is for Curriculum « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • During a great flood the jetty of Lingard and Co. left the bank and floated down the river, probably in search of more cheerful surroundings; even the flock of geese — “the only geese on the east coast” — departed somewhere, preferring the unknown dangers of the bush to the desolation of their old home.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

  • Half obliterated words — “Office: Lingard and Co.” — were still legible on the dusty door, which looked as if it had not been opened for a very long time.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

  • Into that river, whose entrances himself only knew, Lingard used to take his assorted cargo of Manchester goods, brass gongs, rifles and gunpowder.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

  • Macassar, had heard the stories of his smart business transactions, his loves, and also of his desperate fights with the Sulu pirates, together with the romantic tale of some child — a girl — found in a piratical prau by the victorious Lingard, when, after a long contest, he boarded the craft, driving the crew overboard.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

  • She lived with Almayer in the little house (now sadly decaying) built originally by Lingard for the young couple.

    Almayer's Folly 2006

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