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  • Humphries claims to have detested the laddish, drunken "Ocker" type at the film's centre but, in a case of what might be termed Alf Garnett syndrome, it was precisely those people who made

    New Statesman 2009

  • Humphries claims to have detested the laddish, drunken "Ocker" type at the film's centre but, in a case of what might be termed Alf Garnett syndrome, it was precisely those people who made

    New Statesman 2009

  • Jewelry designer Georg Spreng have commissioned the creative folks from C18 Architects (Marcus Kaestle, Andreas Ocker and Michel Roeder) to build him a house in Wissgoldingen, Southern Germany, near Stuttgart.

    Holley House by Hanrahan Meyers Architects 2009

  • Councillor Bob Piper joins Dale and Co in attacking Boris Johnson for accepting some foot-in-mouth Ocker bloke's resignation.

    McGrath Resignation: Debate Takes a New Turn 2008

  • Their accents sway between Ocker Aussie and American at the best of times.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2004

  • In the dim light of the dockside streetlamps, widely spaced and intermittently bright, the tattooes turned him into a son of shadowy lacework gargoyle with an Ocker accent.

    The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992

  • I feel sure that she is a pronounced brunette and that the Blue Flapper we all used to see at the East Ocker is nowhere.

    Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923

  • Wendengrahen, on a canal which joined the Ocker, a stream flowing through Braunschweig.

    Heroes of the Telegraph John Munro 1889

  • He has made his abode amongst the rocks of the green valley, and has no desire to follow little Ilsée in her career to the plain, where she first met the Ocker and Ecker, and afterwards the Aller, who led her forward till she rejoined old Weser.

    The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale Anonymous 1867

  • The Ecker and the Ocker also wanted much to take me with them, but I would not go, I refused absolutely, even at the risk of drying up here from sadness and solitude.

    The Princess Ilsée: A Fairy Tale Anonymous 1867

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