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  • But perhap the most exciting development in this burgeoning spirits category is the appearance of a liqueur called Averell that's made from infusing gin with the Damson plum -- a close cousin of the sloe berry that grows domestically.

    Spirits: It's sloe time Jason Wilson 2010

  • The house on Lake Street known as Averell Cottage was erected in 1793, the central part of it, with chimneys at each end, constituting the original structure.

    The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894

  • Averell Harriman, the U.S. ambassador to England, who had accompanied Churchill, and Hopkins also attended the convivial meal.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • This story sounds suspiciously like a tale based on the 1889 vigilante hanging of the homesteader Jim Averell and nearby Ella Watson, the latter believed to have traded sexual favors to cowboys in return for mavericks.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Back story: In the mid-1930s, railroad tycoon Averell Harriman, seeking to beef up passenger business on his Union Pacific trains, created the USA's first destination winter resort.

    How to ski for less at the most exclusive U.S. resorts 2010

  • This story sounds suspiciously like a tale based on the 1889 vigilante hanging of the homesteader Jim Averell and nearby Ella Watson, the latter believed to have traded sexual favors to cowboys in return for mavericks.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Meetings would go on all day, with Averell Harriman and the current defense secretary Clark Clifford joining the group.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • By decade's end, Peabody's co-publishers had left and been replaced by his new girlfriend, Gretchen Johnsen, a poet from Tacoma, Wash., who worked as a chef for then Washington power couple Averell and Pamela Harriman.

    Main Character: Richard Peabody has devoted his life to Washington's writers. At what cost? Lora Engdahl 2011

  • Meetings would go on all day, with Averell Harriman and the current defense secretary Clark Clifford joining the group.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

  • Meetings would go on all day, with Averell Harriman and the current defense secretary Clark Clifford joining the group.

    Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011

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