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  • As Bance says: The police don't understand Twitter.

    Inside the anti-kettling HQ 2011

  • In the words of Antonia Bance, rapidly becoming my locus classicus for left-wing self-contradiction, the real problem is not the women selling sex but the men who pay for sex.

    Archive 2005-12-25 Laban 2005

  • In the words of Antonia Bance, rapidly becoming my locus classicus for left-wing self-contradiction, the real problem is not the women selling sex but the men who pay for sex.

    Prostitution Crackdown ? Laban 2005

  • Madame Bance says I do it well; my drawing-master says

    A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

  • Madame Bance smiled blandly, improved the occasion by thanking Mr. Hamlin for having given the scholars a gratuitous lesson on the capabilities of the instrument, and was glad to be able to give Miss

    A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

  • She trusted, however, that this informality could be overlooked after consultation with Madame Bance, but in the mean time, perhaps for half an hour, she must withdraw Miss Brown and return with her to the class.

    A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

  • Winterbottom, who places it over eighteen miles above St. George's Bay (_Baie de France_) and north of Tasso Island, thus describes Bance: 'This is a small barren island considerably elevated, with a dry, gravelly soil; but being placed as it were in the midst of an archipelago of low marshy islands, the breeze, from whatever quarter it blows, is impregnated with moisture and marsh effluvia, which render it sickly.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • After clearing Tasso we advanced merrily, and at the end of two hours 'and a half actual sailing and pulling we landed upon Bance, which some call Bence's Island.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • It just didn't feel like it was happening on this campus, Ms. Bance said.

    NYT > Global Home By SABRINA TAVERNISE 2011

  • Hayley Bance, a freshman from Richmond, Va., said she was sitting with some friends in a dining area at the Squires Student Center when the building suddenly became a flurry of police activity.

    NYT > Global Home By SABRINA TAVERNISE 2011

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