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  • The word Ferret to an Englishman conjures-up images of sturdy north-countrymen out on a Sunday morning after rabbits.

    TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page 2010

  • One tool, called Ferret, relies on electronic-intelligence software to sift online through thousands of financial transactions—including those of some military officers and occasionally their spouses, collecting evidence of embezzlement.

    The Hunt for Weapons of Mass Corruption Joel Millman 2011

  • One tool, called Ferret, relies on electronic-intelligence software to sift online through thousands of financial transactions—including those of some military officers and occasionally their spouses, collecting evidence of embezzlement.

    The Hunt for Weapons of Mass Corruption Joel Millman 2011

  • Bridget Maple, alias Ferret, was a covert femme, consequently could not transact any deed of alienation without his concurrence; ergo, the docking of the entail of the estate of Hobby Hole was illegal and of none effect.

    The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

  • Helping them was the renowned Fellowship of the Dreaming Dragon, including Estah, the mage Morhion, a monk named Tyveris, and a thief called Ferret, who was lost forever in the destruction of the Shadowking's crypt.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • Nicholas Whitehead, an NUJ official at ITV Wales said: If we're going to be doing that every weekday, we pretty surely will not be making programmes called The Ferret or Wales This Week because that sort of content would be put into those 10-minute slots.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • I was with Richard and Hannah, so we wrote a song called Ferret Summer.

    unknown title 2009

  • It builds on Ferret which is a ruby port of Apache Lucene.

    Rails Wiki mattmatt 2009

  • (c) use Ferret if You have previously been barred from using it, any other "Ferret" branded website or any other website operated by Catch;

    unknown title 2009

  • ( 'Ferret's Neck'), by Meide in Eoin, ( 'Bird's Neck'), by Baille ( 'the

    The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge Unknown

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