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  • 'Mastic' is doubtless an adjective formed without recondite significance from the substantive 'mastic,' _i. e._ the gum commonly used at the time for stopping decayed teeth.

    A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

  • Jennifer and Jim Griffin of Mastic Beach, who live just a few hundred yards from the edge of a bay, said they were trapped by waters that submerged their front lawn and the surrounding roads.

    Irene Keeps One Million in the Dark Sumathi Reddy 2011

  • Now, with the hands moving on the face of my scuba diving watch, a graduation gift from my grandfather, I threw some lunch in my backpack, jumped in my ten-year-old Ford, still running but on its last legs, and set out for the early morning drive east on Sunrise Highway toward Mastic Beach.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • Now, with the hands moving on the face of my scuba diving watch, a graduation gift from my grandfather, I threw some lunch in my backpack, jumped in my ten-year-old Ford, still running but on its last legs, and set out for the early morning drive east on Sunrise Highway toward Mastic Beach.

    Manifesting Michelangelo Joseph Pierce Farrell 2011

  • We were also sent a fourth dessert, a classic and perfectly executed Creme Brulee, with a nice burned sugar crust, flavored with Mastic Resin (Mastika) — which had a menthol-like flavor to it.

    NJ Dining: Nisi Estiatorio 2009

  • Morrison is a non-Indian from Brooklyn who gained control of a reservation smoke shop on the Poospatuck Indian Reservation in Mastic after marrying into the tribe.

    Rodney Morrison, Cigarettes Kingpin, Sentenced To 10 Years For Untaxed Cigarettes 2010

  • In a statement, the Unkechaug Indian Nation, located in Mastic, said it will undertake its own investigation.

    Smoke Shop Sting 2010

  • Mastic ambrosia” came to me in a flash of inspiration, Lucy.

    Dear clusterflock: Mastic ambrosia | clusterflock 2009

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    Dear clusterflock: Mastic ambrosia | clusterflock 2009

  • On Long Island, slaves were widely scattered about the thinly populated countryside, and although a wealthy 18th Century landowner like William Floyd in Mastic might have a dozen or so slaves, one or two was more common.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2009

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