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COOPER (voice-over): The Army's security assessment of his hometown had concluded that, the overall threat of harassment or criminal activity to the Darbys is imminent.
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The other Darbys when two teams play each other from the same town, Chelsea-Fulham, Manchester City-ManU, Real Madrid-Atletico Madrid, AC Milan-Inter are not nearly as violent as this and don't have the bodies to go with it.
Archive 2004-08-01 2004
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-- Suppose you have heard of Darbys arrival, and the intelligance he brings.
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Darbys [Derby's] employ and is the 7th taken by him within these ten days.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 12 August 1776 1963
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The Darbys were printers time out of mind -- one Robert
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The Darbys in particular called me that, and you're a Darby.
The Sky Line of Spruce Edison Marshall 1930
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"We will be regular old Darbys-and-Joans; so don't you forget while you are away that you belong to me, and I am not going to give you up to anything or anybody -- so long as I want you myself!"
Halcyone Elinor Glyn 1903
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There'll be lots o 'horses to show you, and a whole covey of jolly little Cates-Darbys.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea Langdon Elwyn Mitchell 1898
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There are French Darbys, French Joans, many thousands of them.
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But there are Darbys and Joans of real flesh and blood to be met with -- God bless them, and send more for our example -- wholesome living men and women, brave, struggling, souls with common-sense.
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