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  • But when Moses asked about Akiba's reward, he was shown the brutal aftermath of Akiba's eventual martyrdom, the rabbi's flesh weighed out at the market-stalls.

    Is That Legal?: April 2007 Archives 2007

  • But when Moses asked about Akiba's reward, he was shown the brutal aftermath of Akiba's eventual martyrdom, the rabbi's flesh weighed out at the market-stalls.

    Is That Legal?: "When I step into the classroom this week I reach my limits as a teacher:" A Virginia Tech professor, the Talmud, and Silence 2007

  • But when Moses asked about Akiba's reward, he was shown the brutal aftermath of Akiba's eventual martyrdom, the rabbi's flesh weighed out at the market-stalls.

    Is That Legal?: Crime and Criminal Law Archives 2006

  • For years, I've taken it for granted that while the entertainment industry was generally full of crap when it came to how people were infringing copyrights online, they were at least correct when they talked about the "organized crime" elements who run the counterfeit CD and DVD businesses that supply the endless stream of sidewalk hawkers and market-stalls around America.

    Boing Boing 2005

  • The market-stalls were closed and no women were about.

    Kushiel's Avatar Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- 2003

  • Shrewsbury had a bad conscience about Liliwin, as soon as word of the scandalous truth was being passed round over market-stalls and shop counters and traded along the streets.

    The Sanctuary Sparrow Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1983

  • It was madness, pure madness, and he put his arm round the girl and watched as the two Sergeants threaded the bollards which kept traffic and market-stalls from encroaching on the cathedral's ground.

    Sharpe's Gold Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1981

  • A gift of a public-spirited citizen, this building has served in a double capacity for a hundred and seventy-seven years, having public market-stalls below and a large hall above -- a hall which is never rented, but used freely by the people whenever they wish to discuss public affairs.

    The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth Agnes Rothery

  • His long-jawed, gaunt face was all aglow now, and he rubbed his hands softly together, his thought sliding back evidently into some accustomed track, one that gave him fresh pleasure, though it had been the same these many years, through days of hammering and moulding and nights of sleeping in cheap taverns or under market-stalls.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 Various

  • One has to ask at grocers 'shops, groggeries, market-stalls, Chinese restaurants; interview corner cobblers, ragpickers, gutter children.

    Balcony Stories Grace E. King

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