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  • The Brigs Porpoise and Oregon may shortly be expected.

    Uncollected Prose 2006

  • Brigs was live on air again on the station she works for, ECR this morning, discussing bad driving.

    JC’s Mom 2005

  • Brigs was live on air again on the station she works for, ECR this morning, discussing bad driving.

    I have some strange but wonderful friends « Ewan's Corner 2005

  • Now, there were three years they we're losing from '48 to' 50, then they got the Brigs (ph) Plan, and they had about three years before they broke the back of the insurgency, finally six more years before they wiped it out.

    CNN Transcript Nov 10, 2004 2004

  • On the same road the night of October 19, Bill Brigs '(ph) van window was blown out by gunfire.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2003 2003

  • Brigs and brigantines owned by the State were called the Raleigh,

    American Prisoners of the Revolution Danske Dandridge

  • There was 43 large Ships came in yesterday -- 31 Ships, 10 Brigs & one

    The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Henry P. Johnston

  • Saturday Night, Tam O'Shanter, The Vision, The Brigs of Ayr, and all the more familiar short poems and songs.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • At about half past 12 O'Clock, we cast off from the Pier, and got down to Bombay Hook in the night -- Let go Anchor -- Then weigh'd about break of day and stood down the Bay; Many Vessels in sight -- passed two Brigs & a Schooner that were coming up, -- hailed the Schooner found her to be from Newbern, 15 days out, Capt.

    Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787 1922

  • The Chief or Primate of this Government (Condenotti by name) is an Hydriote (his Brother is now Primate of Hydra) who during his life has amassed a fortune of Five million of dollars, having had for twenty-three years the Trade, I may say, of the whole of the northern part of the Archipelago; himself a ship owner, having no less than eighteen or twenty fine Brigs and ships from 180 to 300 tons burthen.

    Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. Ledbury, Lady Bidulph of 1910

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