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  • We were called at approximately 10. 59pm on Saturday to reports of a shooting in Buller Road, Wood Green, '' a spokesman said.

    Our Rainbow Nation (Again) Laban 2005

  • We were called at approximately 10. 59pm on Saturday to reports of a shooting in Buller Road, Wood Green, '' a spokesman said.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Laban 2005

  • I do not seem to myself to be nearly done; but Mr. Buller is sitting at my elbow with the chess-board, saying, 'When you are ready I am ready.'

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Mrs. Buller is infinitely kind in her exertions to find me amusement.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America Spore discharge in the majority of the 30,000 described species of Basidiomycota is powered by the rapid motion of a fluid droplet, called Buller's drop, over the spore surface.

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  • Next "Buller," who was with the Infantry brigade, called up, and said that the mopping-up in the village had been most successful: our fellows were thrusting for the canal bridge, and had yet to encounter any large enemy forces.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • "Every Boche gun for miles round seemed to be pulverising that awful bit," "Buller," who had gone forward to observe, told me afterwards.

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • Smallman, from South Africa, nicknamed "Buller," was in charge, and he pointed joyously to an abandoned Boche Red Cross waggon that the battery had "commandeered."

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • I rang up "Buller," who was doing liaison with the

    Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

  • Most of us have agreed never to mention the word "Buller," but it is hard to keep that pledge.

    Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

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