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  • Staple is the first stop on the 2008 PvP 10 year anniversary bash.

    PvPonline » Archive » Staple! 2008

  • Staple is the first stop on the 2008 PvP 10 year anniversary bash.

    PvPonline » 2008 » February » 25 2008

  • Gradually, however, the word Staple came to be applied solely to wool as the most important export.

    The History of London Walter Besant 1868

  • Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing street, imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton in his ears, and velvet soles on his boots.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • BEHIND the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing street, imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton in his ears, and velvet soles on his boots.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 1870

  • Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. It is one of those nooks, the turning into which out of the clashing street, imparts to the relieved pedestrian the sensation of having put cotton in his ears, and velvet soles on his boots.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841

  • Staple-bound, the earliest ones – beginning with a small book of poems, AN EVENING ON MILDRED STREET by Mariann Ritzer 1995.

    michael koehler | tangletown & beyond « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Staple-bound, the earliest ones – beginning with a small book of poems, AN EVENING ON MILDRED STREET by Mariann Ritzer 1995.

    October « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • Vespa Pictures and its principles Jeff Vespa and Ilene Staple optioned the book, attached Auburn to adapt it for the screen, and then partnered with Timur to produce the film side-by-side.

    Timur Bekmambetov to Direct Casebook of Victor Frankenstein? | /Film 2010

  • Matt Damon took a rainy shortcut down TriBeCa's Staple Street in the 2011 film "The Adjustment Bureau."

    Our Typecast Metropolis Nick Carr 2011

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