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  • Llanymynech sits on the A483 a few miles from both the Shropshire town of Oswestry and Welshpool - next door to a village called Pant I kid you not.

    Llanymynech 2008

  • On one occasion she accompanied them to a place still called Pant-y-Meddygon (the hollow, or dingle, of the physicians), and there pointed out to them the various herbs which grew around, and revealed their medicinal virtues.

    The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887

  • To explain their skill and uncanny knowledge of herbs, the folk traced them to a supernatural ancestress, who taught them their craft in a place still called Pant-y-Meddygon ( "Doctors 'Dingle").

    Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885

  • “And where it landed, you can still see a scar in the earth, called Pant y cawr, the giant’s hollow.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • “And where it landed, you can still see a scar in the earth, called Pant y cawr, the giant’s hollow.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • “And where it landed, you can still see a scar in the earth, called Pant y cawr, the giant’s hollow.”

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • "Pant," he breathed, "if they strike a light and hold it, we're lost!"

    Panther Eye 1918

  • Cripple Creek three times, an 'Pant'er twicet, to say nothin' o 'Forkid Branch that winds in an' out an 'up an' across them too plantations like a moonstruck chicken snake tryin 'to foller out the corporation line o' them Tennessee towns what hev been down with the boom fever, an 'ain't made out to set itself straight yit!

    The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895

  • “That place, sir,” said he, “is called Pant y Gwyddel — the Irishman’s dingle, and sometimes Pant Paddy, from the Irish being fond of taking up their quarters there.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Pant suits and dresses below the knees PLEASE IF you want to be RESPECTED by the MAJORITY and NOT just by your MERRY MEN!!!

    Palin slams 'sexist' Newsweek cover 2009

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