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  • I remember some times ago some store or stores were foeced to stop silling the same garment.

    Michelle Malkin’s Victory Over Doughnut Terrorists « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • Both sides are silling to sling some generic charges on this front, but neither will want to get into specifics.

    Let's talk about this new Obama ad. Ann Althouse 2008

  • But coom aroond in the mairnin 'and Oi'll boy a bill of ye; Oi doon't give a dom pwhat ye're silling.

    Tales of the Road

  • The letter was read, considered, and the Secretary instructed to advise Prof. Hammerstrand that the Board is silling to set a date to hear the charges which he is requested to put in writing and furnish the Secretary as soon as possible.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1938

  • Australian farm, says: 'There's a fella in toon as calls hisself Colbroke, wi' a good hoose o 'wood, 15 foot length, and as by 'bout as silling o' the pearler o 'Bartram -- only lots o' rats, they do say, my lady -- a bying and sellin 'of goold back and forred wi' the diggin foke and the marchants.

    Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • Soon after they offered a large one for Sall. after finding us anxious to purchase they declined silling this Skin. those people informed us that they killed those Animals among the rocks in the mountains under which they live; and that great numbers of those animals inhabit those mountains & that the lamb was killed out of a gange of 36 at a Short distance from their village.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • While men are in the ranks unarmed, some with slicks and some with their hands in their pockets, we hear some gabbling, and some grunting, and some yawning — wc see some silling, and some lolling, and some standing more like oxen than men.

    War, the work of the Lord, and the coward cursed. A sermon delivered in the First Presbyterian meeting house in Cincinnatti, Ohio, to the Cincinnatti light companies. May 14, 1812 Wilson, Joshua Lacy, 1774-1846 1812

  • a good silling, I warrant you, or I will change it.

    The Life of King Henry the Fifth 2004

  • Dudley had disappeared; but in one of her letters, Meg, writing from her Australian farm, says: “There’s a fella in toon as calls hisself Colbroke, wi’ a good hoose o’ wood, 15 foot length, and as hy ‘bout as silling o’ the pearler o’ Bartram — only lots o’ rats, they do say, my lady — a bying and sellin’ of goold back and forred wi’ the diggin foke and the marchants.

    Uncle Silas 2003

  • [Illustration: "Larry let business drop entirely and danced a jig."] "Well, sir, the first evening I ever went into Larry's store, I hadn't been in a minute until he said to me: 'Oi'm all full up; Oi've got plinty of it, I doon't give a dom pwhat ye're silling.'

    Tales of the Road

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