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  • Venezuela will take control of a local pharmaceuticals laboratory called Orpin Farma after its owners supposedly abandoned the business, President

    unknown title 2011

  • Orpin said the city wastes considerable resources making house calls to pick up large items like discarded fridges and stoves.

    Toronto's war on the poor 2008

  • Orpin said the city wastes considerable resources making house calls to pick up large items like discarded fridges and stoves.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • The designation Orpine has become perversely applied to this plant which bears pink blossoms, the word having been derived from _Orpin_, gold pigment, a yellow sulphuret of the metal arsenic, and it should appertain exclusively to yellow flowers.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Orpin is wearing a blue coat, black vest, white neck-cloth, and dark breeches.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • Harvest, The Gipsies 'Repast_, and probably this portrait of Orpin was one of his gifts.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • Bradford-on-Avon, Orpin, who took out the window-frames from his interesting little house near the church and inserted numerous small single-paned windows which escaped the tax.

    Vanishing England 1892

  • The finest portrait ever painted of a parish clerk is that of Orpin, clerk of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts, whose interesting old house still stands near the grand parish church and the beautiful little Saxon ecclesiastical structure.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • Orpin has a fine and noble face upon which the sunlight is shining through a window as he turns from the Divine Book to see the glories of the blue sky.

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • In the course of his early wanderings Orpin managed to search out Ruyter the Hottentot robber, and so influenced him as to induce him to give up his lawless career, and return to the colony.

    The Settler and the Savage 1859

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