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  • Similar in structure to _The Three Bears_ is the Norse _Three Billy-Goats_, which belongs to the same class of delightful repetitive tales and in which the sequence of the tale is in the same three distinct steps.

    A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

  • _The Three Bears_, _Three Little Pigs_, and _The Little Pig that wouldn't go over the Stile_.

    How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell Sara Cone Bryant

  • _The Three Musketeers_, which clearly look forward to _Soldiers Three_ and all the later stories in that kind.

    Rudyard Kipling John Palmer 1914

  • Drinkwater; "Three Hills" (London _Times_), by Everard Owen, from _Three

    A Treasury of War Poetry British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 George Herbert Clarke 1913

  • Three Tennes and Three_, "he quoted the doggerel verse.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21.

    Quarks, Quorks, Joyce and a Wake 2012

  • Like the three discourses that were published under the title Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, which accompanied Stages On Life's Way, these three discourses seem to coincide with Kierkegaard's three stages of life—also known as spheres of existence.

    The Lily of the Field, The Bird of the Air: Three Devotional Discourses Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • Like the three discourses that were published under the title Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions, which accompanied Stages On Life's Way, these three discourses seem to coincide with Kierkegaard's three stages of life—also known as spheres of existence.

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • William Kaphaem, 51, who uses the name Three Stars, survives on a monthly disability cheque of less than $700 U.S.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Michael Kesterton 2011

  • A helpful reminder of this necessity is what I call the "Three Ps."

    Dr. Jim Taylor: 5 Steps to Positive Life Change (and the Big Payoff!) Dr. Jim Taylor 2012

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