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  • Jay A Fernandez reads another screenplay: If ever a movie begged for the resurrection of the drive-in, Drive-Away Dykes is it.

    GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2007

  • Sometimes the name Dykes may imply residence near some historic earthwork, such as Offa's Dyke, just as Wall, for which Waugh was used in the north, may show connection with the Roman wall.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

  • Alison Bechdel is a feminist comic writer/artist who is perhaps best known for her recent memoir Fun Home, though she also writes and draws a weekly comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For, which is, I believe, where the strip in question originated.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Ed Howard 2008

  • Alison Bechdel is a feminist comic writer/artist who is perhaps best known for her recent memoir Fun Home, though she also writes and draws a weekly comic strip called Dykes to Watch Out For, which is, I believe, where the strip in question originated.

    The Bechdel Rule for Movies Ed Howard 2008

  • We even founded an annual lesbian party at Amherst called Dykes and Dates.

    Same Sex in the City Lauren Levin 2006

  • We even founded an annual lesbian party at Amherst called Dykes and Dates.

    Same Sex in the City Lauren Levin 2006

  • Yorkshire, and there can be little doubt that the Dykes were the scene of great intertribal struggles if the loss of such infinite quantities of weapons is to be adequately accounted for.

    The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

  • Clark had called Dykes a "pied piper" earlier in the trial for filling his apartment in the early 80s with things such as exotic pets, an aquarium and games to attract boys from a Scout troop organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    Fore, right! WILLIAM McCALL 2010

  • Clark had called Dykes a "pied piper" earlier in the trial for filling his apartment in the early 80s with things such as exotic pets, an aquarium and games to attract boys from a Scout troop organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

  • Clark had called Dykes a "pied piper" earlier in the trial for filling his apartment in the early 80s with things such as exotic pets, an aquarium and games to attract boys from a Scout troop organized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

    WRAL.com Top Stories 2010

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