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  • Mostly, though, the movie lumbers along in medieval mode, what with Valerie's stern father Billy Burke, also from "Twilight" telling her that "it's time to put on your harlot's robe," and Gary Oldman's witch-hunting Father Solomon telling everyone that "during a Blood Moon your very souls are in danger."

    See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • I didn't, in fact; the only thing I recollected about Joshua and spying was two chaps being sent to a harlot's house ... but this was appalling news I was hearing.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • One clay tablet dating from this era tells us that diseases of the eye can be cured by a harlot's spittle.

    Sense & Sensuality 2009

  • One clay tablet dating from this era tells us that diseases of the eye can be cured by a harlot's spittle.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • Unity Valkyrie Mitford, was born and named in the Canuck village of Swastika, performed an excruciatingly slow suicide, dying nine years after shooting herself in the head with the "harlot's gun" Hitler gave her as a life preserver.

    Archive 2007-12-16 2007

  • Unity Valkyrie Mitford, was born and named in the Canuck village of Swastika, performed an excruciatingly slow suicide, dying nine years after shooting herself in the head with the "harlot's gun" Hitler gave her as a life preserver.

    BNP Unity: Richard Barnpot Becomes Balletomane 2007

  • Yet to withhold the effects, — 'tis a greed more loathly than harlot's

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • And they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • Yet to withhold the effects, — 'tis a greed more loathly than harlot's

    Poems and Fragments 2006

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