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  • Felix Oldboy, who published “roadside rambles” for city newspapers under the name John Flavel Mines, went so far as to call Broadway “in reality an accident.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • Felix Oldboy, who published “roadside rambles” for city newspapers under the name John Flavel Mines, went so far as to call Broadway “in reality an accident.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • But we don't know what happened at 60th & Flavel around 3AM today.

    Portland gangster hit in broad daylight (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • "Sir, the great and pious work which you have gone through with such unwearied and steady zeal, for the honour and worship of Almighty God, we have also finally perfected on our part; and our ratification of that act for erecting churches, _&c. _ together with duplicates of all other dispatches, we have forwarded to you by Captain Flavel."

    An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt

  • In his writings you meet few of those apt allusions which play over every line of Bunyan, like the slant beams of evening on the winking lids of the ocean; nor can you gather out of his writings such anecdotes as, like garnet in some Highland mountain, sparkle in every page of Brooks and Flavel.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • Like a soft valley, where every turn reveals a cascade or a castle, or at least a picturesque cottage, Flavel lures us along by the vivid succession of his curious analogies and interesting stories; whilst all the way the path is green with kind humanity, and bright with

    The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

  • Day by day, she rekindled her torch at the holy fire which comes streaming on to us from the luminaries of the past -- from Baxter, Taylor, and Flavel, and many a compeer whose names live in our hearts, and linger on our lips.

    Choice Readings for the Home Circle Anonymous

  • He had a small but select library of theological works, in which were to be found the works of Flavel, Buxton, Boston, and others.

    John Chavis. Antebellum Negro Preacher and Teacher 1914

  • He had a small but select library of theological works, in which were to be found the works of Flavel, Buxton, Boston, and others.

    Slavery in the State of North Carolina 1899

  • In the pile were many favorite books of devotion, including works of Flavel, Beveridge, Henry, and like venerated names, and the sentence was announced with a loud voice, “that the smoke of the torments of such of the authors of the above-said books as died in the same belief as when they set them out was now ascending in hell, in like manner as they saw the smoke of these books arise.”

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

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