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Examples

  • "Anybody expecting a sartorial mess called Bascom?"

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • That was the contact name Bascom had provided him with earlier this morning.

    Kahen no Ame H-M Brown 2010

  • Wayne called Bascom and agreed to an interview after reading the June 10 edition of the Post

    Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Top Stories 2010

  • It's made more difficult by the fact that the name "Bascom" is misindexed by Ancestry.com in 1930.

    Genealogue Challenge #71 2007

  • If any native of Eastboro, if the depot master on the other side of the track, should hear him addressed as "Bascom," the fat would be in the fire for good and all.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "Bascom --" The inventor was thoroughly frightened, and his voice rose almost to a shout.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "Whoever he marries now, Mis 'Bascom'll have to say 't was the one she meant," laughed the Widow Buzzell.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Tory Hill and Saco Hill met at the bridge, and just there, too, the river road began its shady course along the east side of the stream: in view of all which "old Mis 'Bascom's settin'-room winder" might well be called the "Village Watch-Tower," when you consider further that she had moved only from her high-backed rocker to her bed, and from her bed to her rocker, for more than thirty years, -- ever since that july day when her husband had had a sun-stroke while painting the meeting-house steeple, and her baby Jonathan had been thereby hastened into a world not in the least ready to receive him.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • "Well, the 'Bascom' part wa'n't mine no more -- not all mine.

    The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The research looks at the effects of sedentary activity in a new way, according to Dr. Audina Berrocal, a pediatric retinal specialist at the University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute.

    Couch-potato kids could be risking their hearts 2011

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