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  • The Briscoes wanted their money and not a car company, so to them it seemed only logical that perhaps Durant-Dort might be interested.

    The Ghosts of Detroit 2009

  • The Briscoes wanted their money and not a car company, so to them it seemed only logical that perhaps Durant-Dort might be interested.

    The Ghosts of Detroit 2009

  • He was almost two miles from town; the nearest house was the Briscoes 'far down the road.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Platt and the forefathers of the Bardlocks and Tibbses and Briscoes and

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • He cuts across to the railroad to have a sure footing, and strikin 'for the deepo for shelter -- near place as any except Briscoes' where he'd said good-night already and prob'ly don't wish to go back, 'fear of givin' trouble or keepin ''em up -- anybody can understand that.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The editor was to be delivered to the Briscoes at eventide and returned by them again at dewy morn; and this was to be the daily programme.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Then I saw two others a little farther east, in the middle of the road; and I think they had followed me from the Briscoes ', or near there.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • At the same time Mr. Harkless leaves Briscoes 'goin' west.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • Lige Willetts had lost track of him out near Briscoes ', it was said, and had come in at midnight seeking him.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The advent and the purposes of this personage were, as yet, known certainly to only those of the "Herald" and to the Briscoes.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

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