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  • "Every time I hear a story that it helped a guy not stick his head somewhere he didn 't want to stick it, that makes it all worth while," said Alan Bignall, CEO of ReconRobotics Inc., which has sold 1,200 Recon Scout Throwbots, including the one used by the Baltimore police, to the military and about 150 police departments.

    Friends Made in Low Places Joe Barrett 2010

  • Ashley Bignall, 30, a part-time carer from south London, said: ''We are proud of him and we thank him.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • Ashley Bignall, 30, a part-time carer from south London, said: ''We are proud of him and we thank him.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

  • Alan Bignall, CEO of ReconRobotics, said the company is considering a number of civilian applications, including building and water tower inspections and warehouse security.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • I didn't see any celebrities or champagne socialists, but I did meet Ashley Bignall, a 30-year-old from South London who's upset about cuts to local services, including libraries.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Elizabeth Renzetti 2011

  • Still, the distance between them was too great, in the opinion of Bignall, to commence the contest, while the facility with which his adversary moved a-head threatened to protract the important moment to an unreasonable extent, or to reduce him to a crowd of sail that might prove embarrassing while enveloped in the smoke, and pressed by the urgencies of the combat.

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The voice of the chaplain became suddenly choaked, for his wandering eye had fallen on the frowning countenance of Bignall, which, set in death, lay but half concealed beneath that flag which the Rover himself had cast upon the body.

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "Come on, ye villains!" shouted the excited Bignall "Come, and perform the office with your own hands!"

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Guinea and I have often talked the matter over together, and serious thoughts has it given to us both, more than once, Captain Bignall.

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • Bignall was flourished furiously and wildly above his head, and his voice was still heard crying, till the sounds rattled in his throat, --

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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