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  • And she herself told him the simple history of her life -- told him that she was the daughter of a merchant-captain called Prodder; that she

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • Barnard in a Prodder publication that lists the country's development agencies.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • "The South African development challenge is becoming more complex by the day, characterised by the development needs, organisational challenges and people's growing frustration with slow delivery," notes David Barnard, co-ordinator of the Programme for Development Research (Prodder).

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The Prodder directory only lists about 30 organisations dealing with Aids - health consultants say that, with a doubling time of about 15 months, Aids is spreading at a faster rate in South Africa than in any other African country, albeit from a lower base.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The sporting gentlemen who accepted it, however -- Messrs. Prodder and Way -- seemed pleased with it; though, when

    Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel 1928

  • Messrs. Prodder and Way are to publish it in the autumn.

    Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel 1928

  • I might have saved myself the trouble, for I made the same inquiries at every house on each side of the street, going straight from door to door, till the people thought I was a sea-farin 'tax-gatherer; but nobody had ever heard the name of Prodder, and the oldest inhabitant in the street had n't lived there ten years.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • But in all this it was not his own safety that Captain Prodder thought of.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • They were talking of horses when Captain Prodder awoke, and the sailor lay for some time listening to a jargon that was utterly unintelligible to him.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

  • He was thinking this, when, in reply to the town-bred footman's question, the sailor uttered the name of Prodder; and in the one moment of its utterance his thoughts flew back over one-and-twenty years, and he was madly in love with a beautiful actress, who owned blushingly to that plebeian cognomen.

    Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863

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