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Not that it affected my performance: on Boxing Day I won the seven-mile Chevin Chase race in Guiseley, by nearly two minutes from my nearest rival.
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Chevin says financial stress and odd-hour work shifts can play roles in sleeplessness.
Allison Kilkenny: 'Third Quarter Growth' and Other Things That Mean Nothing To You 2009
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The gunslinger laid the silver cross he'd shown Chevin on the table by the plate of cheese, and John poked the fine links of the chain with one thick thumbnail.
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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Did it have something to do with Chevin of Chayven, the slow mutie Roland had put out of its misery in Lovell?
The Dark Tower King, Stephen 2004
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_Chevin_, the sooner taken; loving his Bait large, and variety on a
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When you serve it, you may lay round the dish divers Small Fishes, as Tench, Pearch, Gurnet, Chevin, Roach, Smelts, and run them over with jelly.
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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The _Chevin_, loveth all sorts of _Worms_, _Flies_, _Cheese_, _Grain_, and _Black Worms_, their Bellies being slit, that the White may be seen:
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In the Morning early angle for _Chevin_, with a _Snail_; in the heat of the day, with some other Bait; in the afternoon with the
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Lastly, _Mutton_-Kidney Suet, and _Turmerick_ reduced to a fine Powder, the fattest old _Cheese_ and strongest _Rennet_, wrought to a Paste, adding _Turmerick_, till the Paste be of a curious Yellow; and is excellent and approved for _Chevin_.
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Immediately to the south rises the steep ridge known as the Chevin.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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