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  • DALLAS WOODHOUSE: It's very loud at the Woodhouse house.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009 2009

  • Emma Woodhouse is a manipulative snob, and while the author clearly disapproves of her manipulations and occasional rudeness, she entirely endorses the snobbery.

    November Books 10) Emma nwhyte 2008

  • Dallas Woodhouse is a prime example of the irrationality on the part of the right.

    Brothers spar over health care reform 2009

  • The DNC's immature and psychologically manipulative statement by Brad Woodhouse is nothing more than a cheap shot that undermines the authenticity of politics.

    DNC reacts: Palin decision 'continues a pattern of bizarre behavior' 2009

  • Well, Miss Woodhouse, is he like what you expected?

    Unanswerable Gallantry and Thick-Headed Nonsense: Rereading Box Hill 2000

  • 44Aris Velouchiotis, the most celebrated and mythologised of the partisan leaders, had theorised the family as an '... economic unit whose purpose was to propagate overall prosperity and which provides the best possible basis for the organisation of society' (in Woodhouse, 1976: 63).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • Outside the novel but invested in this insult, the not-quite-missing link between Miss Bates and Miss Woodhouse is Miss Austen herself, a forty-something spinster when Emma was published, whose letters detail the small income (a few hundred pounds/an.) and abject economies on which her household survived after her father’s death (cf. Harding 350).

    Boxing Emma; or the Reader’s Dilemma at the Box Hill Games 2000

  • At 6 o'clock, Captain Woodhouse was to start roasting an immense ox ... at 9: 30 a blessing was to be invoked on the new Dominion, "and" at 10: 30 a grand military review of regiments including the Queen's Own (Rifles) "- who so ably led us to the head table today.

    Dominion of Canada Day Luncheon 1983

  • "Time!" called Woodhouse, with a sudden gleam of mirth, but the thing was not coming at him again.

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

  • The report produced by the Commission, known as the Woodhouse Report recommended replacing tort liability for personal injury with a new, universal, 24 - hour, no-fault approach to compensation and services to the injured.

    NZ On Screen 2010

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