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  • Nobody knocking back Thunderbird or Ripple from a flat pint bottle.

    April 2008 2008

  • Nobody knocking back Thunderbird or Ripple from a flat pint bottle.

    Tales from the Bowery 2008

  • Tom Ripple is a man seemingly committed to nothing except bad puns and lust.

    It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick: Questions 2005

  • The Fortescue arms are found on the dial in Ripple Churchyard, Gloucestershire, with the name of the maker, "Nath: Witham, Chancery Lane, London."

    The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

  • The series comprises Martha Quest (1952), A Proper Marriage (1954), A Ripple from the Storm (1958), Landlocked (1965) and The Four-Gated City (1969).

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Bio-bibliography 2007

  • The writer Alex Prud'homme - author of a great new book on water called The Ripple Effect - compares drought to a "python, which slowly and inexorably squeezes its prey to death."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • There, at the University of Cape Town, he gave a speech - known as the "Ripple of Hope" speech - that would be repeated over and over again and even etched onto his tombstone.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The writer Alex Prud'homme - author of a great new book on water called The Ripple Effect - compares drought to a "python, which slowly and inexorably squeezes its prey to death."

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • A pair of dangerous underwater peaks jointly called Ripple Rock created severe whirlpools in the waters near Vancouver Island, sinking numerous ships and claiming more than 100 lives.

    unknown title 2009

  • A pair of dangerous underwater peaks jointly called Ripple Rock created severe whirlpools in the waters near Vancouver Island, sinking numerous ships and claiming more than 100 lives.

    unknown title 2009

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