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  • Saybrook Platform was omitted, and all ecclesiastical laws were grouped under the three heads entitled Eights of Conscience,

    The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Maria Louise Greene

  • And the fact that it only happened because they identified the Sharons as 'Eights' before they knew about the Final Five - was anyone actually worried about that particular piece of minutia?

    MIND MELD: If We Ran Battlestar Galactica 2009

  • At Oxford every year there is a boat-race called the "Eights," where the river is so narrow that the winner has to bump the boat in front of him.

    Civil Service Reform 1918

  • "Eights" week and Commemoration as the shining events of the year.

    Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885

  • England's former one-day wicketkeeper Paul Nixon, left, looks on as Ricky Ponting hits out in a 2007 World Cup Super Eights match in Antigua.

    My glove affair with keepers of the lost stumpers' art 2011

  • Some tennis inconveniently interrupted here, in the style possibly of Chris's life partner handing round the After Eights, but our monologist was not about to be thrown off his stride: I hear he's not a great listener, but the sarcasm we believe it is when he's talking to his box like that, how are they feeling right now?

    Offbeat Chris Bradnam surges ahead in the wacky commentator race 2011

  • I adored the city of dreaming spires, its Eights races on the Cherwell River, gowns and other traditions, the local countryside, and the playful academic approach.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • Some tennis inconveniently interrupted here, in the style possibly of Chris's life partner handing round the After Eights, but our monologist was not about to be thrown off his stride: I hear he's not a great listener, but the sarcasm we believe it is when he's talking to his box like that, how are they feeling right now?

    Offbeat Chris Bradnam surges ahead in the wacky commentator race 2011

  • In fact, David Kenzer says “2009 is mostly about Aces & Eights product.”

    Aces & Eights – Still Kicking! « Geek Related 2009

  • He said he didn't want children, because "I don't like children", although he did give me one of his two After Eights.

    A charity dinner with Jimmy Savile 2011

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