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  • I put aside the temptation to see that face again, and set about learning what forts were on the neck of land to south, where the two rivers, coming together at an angle, make what we call the Neck.

    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker 1871

  • [1] Tobias JS, Monson K, Gupta N, et al. Chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer: 10-year follow-up of the UK Head and Neck (UKHAN1) trial.

    CancerConsultants 2009

  • Same Colour 3/4 of an inch in width passes from the Side of the neck just above the buts of the wings across the troop in the form of a gorget. the throat or under part of the neck brest and belly is of a fine Yellowish brick red. a narrow Stripe of this Colour also Commences just above the center of each eye, and extends backwards to the Neck as far as the black Spots reaches before discribed, to which it appears to answer as a border. the feathers which form the 1st and Second range of the coverts of the two joints of the wings next the body are butifully aped with this Brick red; as is also each large feather of the wing on the Short Side of its plumage for 1/2 an inch in length Comencing at the extremity of the feather which form the first or main Covert of the wing.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • The Thing Around Your Neck is a resounding confirmation of the prodigious literary powers of one of our most essential writers.

    The Thing Around Your Neck: Summary and book reviews of The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. 2009

  • And lurking among the thickets of Joya’s Neck is the mysterious Woolman, a feral black man who moves like the wind and spreads death like the devil.

    Song Yet Sung by James McBride: Questions 2008

  • First sighted by Abel Tasman in 1642, Bruny Island (really two islands joined by an isthmus called The Neck) has an abundance of wildlife and is noted as a birdwatcher's paradise.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • First sighted by Abel Tasman in 1642, Bruny Island (really two islands joined by an isthmus called The Neck) has an abundance of wildlife and is noted as a birdwatcher's paradise.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2009

  • I bet Capt Bailey and RM2 Robinson know where Dam Neck is do you?

    Peter Sumaruck II 2010

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