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  • They gaped at the great spread of armoury workshops and the arsenal building, gazed up the Shenandoah shore to the rifle works half a mile off, considered the number of workmen moving briskly about the sheds, and the activity about Wager's station hotel by the railroad tracks - and you could see in their eyes the question to J.B.: how the devil do we take this place?

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Ann Wager's origins are unknown, except that she was born by 1716.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • What are Wager's grounds for denying that Cynthia is representing redness in addition to middle C?

    Representational Theories of Consciousness Lycan, William 2006

  • They gaped at the great spread of armoury workshops and the arsenal building, gazed up the Shenandoah shore to the rifle works half a mile off, considered the number of workmen moving briskly about the sheds, and the activity about Wager's station hotel by the railroad tracks - and you could see in their eyes the question to J.B.: how the devil do we take this place?

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • They gaped at the great spread of armoury workshops and the arsenal building, gazed up the Shenandoah shore to the rifle works half a mile off, considered the number of workmen moving briskly about the sheds, and the activity about Wager's station hotel by the railroad tracks - and you could see in their eyes the question to J.B.: how the devil do we take this place?

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • Wager's sentimentality overflowed in approved and well-established channels: Princeton was their mother, their sacred alma -- alma mater.

    Cytherea Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • So disheartened were they now, that caring little for life, they agreed to return to their original station on Wager's Island, and to end their days in miserable existence there.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • After a terrible journey back to Wager's Island they reached it alive, though again worn out by hunger and fatigue.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • There they were met by a number of soldiers, with three or four officers, who surrounded them fiercely as though they were a most formidable enemy instead of the four poor helpless creatures left of the fifteen men that had set out from Wager's Island.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • Mrs. Abbott that she might be able to maintain Wager's children.

    The Whirlpool George Gissing 1880

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