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On August 19, the junta of grey-faced reactionaries struck.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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On August 19, the junta of grey-faced reactionaries struck.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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On August 19, the junta of grey-faced reactionaries struck.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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On August 19, the junta of grey-faced reactionaries struck.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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The grey-faced, pock-marked men with whom they shared their earnings looked like some monstrous breed of East Anglian rodent? sort of human coypus? that had crawled out from the Suffolk sewerage system.
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"Bring the knife back," I snarled, baring my fangs at him, and when he had scrambled up, grey-faced and terrified, and returned it, I touched the point on his chest and says: "Call Makarram Khan a pig just once more, ulla kabaja, * (* Son of an owl.) and I will carry thine eyes and genitals on this point as kebabs."
Fiancée 2010
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They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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They sat in the centre of the stalls, in the same row as Jean Mounet-Sully, reckoned by Bernhardt to have been the best Hamlet of her time, alongside the composer Charles Gounod, and the grey-faced poet Maurice Rollinat.
Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile Gyles Brandreth 2009
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