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Examples
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Brunt is a good farmer – very good – there's no doubt about that.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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Though the trailer’s hobo, Dave Brunt, is obviously not playing the hobo for the big-screen, he has landed a role as a police officer in the film.
Rutger Hauer is HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2010
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A whisper went about that Bewcastle was on the far side, in the little glen called the Brunt Burn.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies John Buchan 1907
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This man had a riding-boy called Brunt -- a lad from Perth, West Australia -- and he taught Brunt, with a trainer's whip, the hardest thing a jock can learn -- to sit still, to sit still, and to keep on sitting still.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Blues failed to pick up Brunt from a short Morrison corner and his centre was headed over the line by Scharner from an acute angle at the far post.
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Van Brunt lowered his head in a musing manner, and an imperceptible smile played on his mouth.
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"So the Spanish fleet was bottled up in Santiago," Van Brunt was saying, when a young woman stepped lightly before him and stood by Fairfax's side.
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Van Brunt saw a head peer from behind a distant tree, and with a quick shot sent the man sprawling to the ground in a death struggle.
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Van Brunt, who was keeping one shell continuously in the air.
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He went off between the pines, and Van Brunt found himself staring into
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