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  • A Gwinnett letter sold for £500,000 last year, and so St Peter's church, Wolverhampton, has struck gold by discovering the colonist's signature on parish records.

    In praise of … a well-placed signature | Editorial 2011

  • Australia; Mary was in Buenos Ayres; Poll was in New York; Joe had died in India -- and so they called them up, the living and the dead, soldier and sailor, and colonist's wife, for the traveller's sake who sat in their kitchen.

    THE SEA WIFE 2010

  • Now, we have no hint in the story that this thinking informed the colonist's excruciatingly dangerous final choice to abandon tech and step boldly back into the stone age.

    The Vanishing 2009

  • I am the pink-faced, green-eyed, flaxen-haired one whose face resembles the masks worn by the dancers of Los Viejitos, schlepping matching Tumi luggage loaded with a colonist's harvest from Trader Joe's and Barnes & Noble.

    Crossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail 2007

  • I am the pink-faced, green-eyed, flaxen-haired one whose face resembles the masks worn by the dancers of Los Viejitos, schlepping matching Tumi luggage loaded with a colonist's harvest from Trader Joe's and Barnes & Noble.

    Crossing Over: A Mexican Family On The Migrant Trail 2007

  • Those are some interesting provisions for your claim. 18th Cent. forward and the exclusion of the colonist's in America.

    Jerry Falwell: Romney's Mormonism "Will Not Be A Factor" 2009

  • Kala's branch of the church is one of the more premissive ones--they don't practice poligamy, and acknowledge the existence of the first colonist's 'angry wives'--and Kala's family stand by her when she is shunned for her brother's actions.

    The 2007 Hugo Award: The Novella Shortlist Abigail Nussbaum 2007

  • Virginian-Pilot: DNA from the wrong woman can't confirm colonist's identity

    Archive 2005-11-01 2005

  • A genetic analysis of the material was sent back to Phoenix with the request that someone create a fungicide that would get the mold literally out of the colonist's hair.

    Old Mans War 2005

  • As soon as a colonized people agrees to play ball on the colonist's field, the game is over.

    trinityboy Diary Entry trinityboy 2005

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