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  • Ewart's erotic and satirical poetry was often love poetry in disguise, of course.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • It was Ewart's job to clear the footage with the censors, cut together a sequence from the raw footage, and then pass it along to a script writer, who added the voice-over description of the assault for the final 60 - or 90-second newsreel story.

    Juno, Where Citizen Soldiers From Canada Made History 2004

  • Ensign Christie's defence of his colour at Quatre Bras is memorable, as is Sergeant Ewart's chilling account of how he took the Eagle during the British cavalry charge.

    Sharpe's Waterloo Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 1990

  • Peter Marlowe scooped up the rice and the leaves that floated in the stew and put them in Ewart's mess can.

    King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

  • Denison's were scarlet, and Ewart's blue, fluttered in the wind in all directions.

    Recollections of Old Liverpool A Nonagenarian

  • The machine is driven from the pulleys and shaft, T, through gearing, T2 and T3, and by the Ewart's chain on the wheel and pinion, V and U. -- _The Engineer.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various

  • Ewart's careful experiments, at Penicuik, do not lend authority to the view, and it may perhaps turn out that the true explanation of this puzzling variety of heredity depends on some law of reversion, at present misunderstood, but which may be cleared up by further researches along Mendelian lines.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Mr. Ewart's words, however, contradict his own assertion, because if, as he continues, "Europe is restlessly ready for war and there is now no better chance for it," why, I ask, is there not war?

    Naval Defence for Canada 1909

  • Ewart's act received the royal assent on the 14th August, 1850, and within seven weeks Norwich had decided to adopt it!

    Three Centuries of a City Library an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Norwich Public Library Established in 1608 and the present Public Library opened in 1857 George A. Stephen 1907

  • I went back to school when that holiday was over, dreaming of beautiful things, and got Ewart to talk to me of love; and I made a great story out of the doll's house, a story that, taken over into Ewart's hands, speedily grew to an island doll's city all our own.

    Tono Bungay 1906

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