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Frontier Party [Emily LAU Wai-hing, chairwoman]; Liberal Party

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  1. A dialectal variant of hang. O Salvatour! O Jesse, floure so kynde, Of oon for everichon that list be borne, And for us hinge, a crowne usyng of thorne! Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 148. His bonnet stood ance fu’ fair on his brow, … But now he lets 't wear ony way it will hing. Lady Grisell Baillie, Were na my Heart Licht.
  2. An East Indian name for asafetida. I went from Agra to Satagam in Bengal, in the company of 180 boats laden with salt, opium, hinge, lead, carpets, and divers other commodities. R. Fitch (Arber's Eng. Garner, III. 194).

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  • They knew exactly where everyt hing was located The planes were strong-armed out of the hangars. —  005 - The Pirate of the Pacific
  • Everybody [106] in the boat was listening, so I continued: "How much do you know about this fellow Devis, who strained his back at the last moment Engine room's where he could have planted something," Joe Kivelson said. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper
  • He might have been better advised to have kept an eye on Frankie all the while he had been calling her a dirty hing-out and the like, but hangover-hindsight was a bitch. —  BlackStaticHorrorMagazine#3
  • Cheung Siu-hing, director of city's agriculture department, said authorities would strengthen biosecurity measures for all Hong Kong poultry farms by increasing the number of inspections and testing of blood samples. —  Medindia Health News
  • Center for Health Protection Consultant Wong Ka-hing said sexual transmission continued to be the major mode of HIV spread. —  Top Stories - Google News
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