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  • So, to all my kittens to live in this area: whether you are coming in from 183 or 35W to Fort Worth, Belknap is 35 mph …. right as you hit it.

    Fetch me a loaded bazooka « Lab Kat 2006

  • "Belknap" -- Rowdy dropped his saddle spitefully to the ground -- "is where our friend Conroy has just gone to fill a splendid position."

    Rowdy of the Cross L B. M. Bower 1905

  • And then, after a time, recalling Belknap’s advice, he managed to straighten up and with an air of studied ease and courage — which was belied to a certain extent by his strained, pale face and somewhat hazy stare — look at the writers and artists who were either studying or sketching him, and even to whisper: “Quite a full house, eh?”

    An American Tragedy 2004

  • Osama bin Laden, “Message to the American people,” quoted in Gilles Kepel, Al Qaeda in its Own Words Boston: Belknap Press, 2008, p.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • He was pompous: Jeremy Belknap, the contemporary historian, nicknamed him "the Monarch."

    A Definitive American Life Barton Swaim 2011

  • At a gathering at a restaurant Sunday in Center Barnstead, N.H., hosted by the Belknap County Republican Committee, Mr. Huntsman didn't mention his rival in his brief talk.

    GOP Rivals Meet Up on the Trail Monica Langley 2011

  • At a gathering at a restaurant Sunday in Center Barnstead, N.H., hosted by the Belknap County Republican Committee, Mr. Huntsman didn't mention his rival in his brief talk.

    GOP Rivals Meet Up on the Trail Monica Langley 2011

  • "In an infringement claim, the issue is whether…the relevant consuming public is likely to be confused," said Gloria Phares, an attorney with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP who specializes in intellectual property.

    Walt Disney Stakes Claim After Oil Firm Adopts Famous Name Erica Orden 2011

  • The show was moving to Friday nights, where the writers would have to figure out how to resolve last season's "shot in the dark" cliff-hanger involving serial killer Shane Casey (guest star Edward Furlong) and married CSIs Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) Messer.

    CSI: NY Returns on a New Night with a New Face 2010

  • In his new book, “The Decline and Fall of the American Republic,” just released by the Belknap Press Press of Harvard University Press, Ackerman points to a series of political, bureaucratic, legal, and military developments that are making the modern presidency into a far more dangerous institution than it was in the days of Watergate.

    Dangers of a politicized military Steven E. Levingston 2010

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