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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? ruth wallis | 87 singer-writer of risqué songs
ruth wallis | 87 singer-writer of risqué songs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Categories: jaroslav seifert, norbert blei, ruth wallis, susan peterson, wilma elizabeth mcdaniel
norbert blei | seifert and others « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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She would not dare to carry tales to Miss Theobald or Miss Coro-wallis, nor was she certain that Hilary, the head-girl of the form, would even listen to her!
Fifth Formers at St. Clare's Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1967
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And so mycht the Toune justlye have dispared of any farther succourse to have bein loked for; butt yit it held good; for the stout corage and prudent governement of Schir James Wolfurd, [551] generall, who did so encorage the hole capitanes and soldartis, that thei determined to dye upon thare wallis.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Bot hearing of our suddane cuming, he abandoned his charge, and had left the spoile to the poore, who had maid havock of all suche thingis as was movable in those placis befoir our cuming, and had left nothing bot bair wallis, yea, nocht sa muche as door or windok; wharthrow we war the less trubilled in putting ordour to suche places.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Corn-wallis, the governor-general, took the command of the army upon himself, and laid siege to Bangalore.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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Washington entered Princetown, but as Lord Corn-wallis had discovered his retreat, and was now in his rear, he left that town, and reached and crossed Millstone River; breaking down the bridge to prevent his being pursued.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr
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And he maat [meted, measured] the wallis of it of an hundride and foure and fourti cubitis bi mesure of man, that is, of an aungel.
The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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One of his acquaintances, a colored soldier at the Battle of Saratoga, walked up, quite elated, to Cornwallis, after his surrender, saying: -- "You used to be named Cornwallis, but it is Corn-wallis no longer; it must now be Cob-wallis, for General Washington has shelled off all the corn."
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This yere the abbot of Abyndon a pardon of pleyne remission, [131] and the wallis of London were bigonne to be newe repaired.
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