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The name One Agency the Korean word "cheil" means "one" in English will be shelved in favor of bringing back the name Cheil USA for the agency's two offices, in New York and Dallas.
NYT > Home Page By STUART ELLIOTT 2011
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“In Israel, a garrison unit (Hebrew: cheil matzav) is a regular unit defending a specified zone such as a city, a province, a castle or fortress, or even a single building.”
Hoss Men (continued) 2010
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An English parliament as such would be pointless as it would utterly fail to devolve power on local issues to local people--and that's the cheil that winna dint, as they say north of the Border.
A Bore Draw at PMQs 2007
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An 'ye' ll be a braw cheil 'yet -- creep afore ye gang.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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If you were a _Romany cheil_ you would sleep in, or under, your own _roulotte_, on a mattress, which, in the daytime, is neatly folded away in the rear of your wagon, or hung in full view, temptingly spread with a lace coverlet.
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I therefore conclude that in all these cases the symbol is to be interpreted by _che_, _cheil_, "wood, tree, timber, stick."
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To«al. on his return from this fuccefsful attacki was ftrucl; in hb arm and cheil by a fall from an cight-pounder which proved fatal in a very few minutes.
A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1795
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Points to the nook, which he his ftudy calls Pompous and vain 1 for thus he might efteem His cheil, a wardrobe; purfe, a treafury;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Th’ glaikit cheil sent a vemen childe tae dae a mon’s job.
Judge deveraux The Scent of Jasmine 2011
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Ernie didn't take his eyes off Veronique "Your chef has arrived." iqu'e My cheil "He glanced at Veronique.
Temporary Wife Kilby, Joan 1999
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