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  • Fleece is perfect to protect plants from frost, plus it's worms 'work

    In the garden this week: Wrap up warm and no-dig digging Lia Leendertz 2010

  • "They lived, then, over the stables in Fleece yard and Bell yard?"

    English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century 1854

  • Aëtes listened, in silent indignation, to this recital, and then burst out into a torrent of invectives against the Argonauts and his grand-children, declaring that the Fleece was his rightful property, and that on no consideration would he consent to relinquish it.

    Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

  • Thus they rode through the streets into the market place, which was wide and great, and the best houses of the town were therein, and so came to the hostel of the Merchants, called the Fleece, which was a big house, and goodly enough.

    The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

  • Only the head of Bilderberg and member of the Order of the Golden Fleece which is the present day Holy Roman Empire that has carried on under this seemingly benign Order ever since 1806 when they were FORCED to abdicate.

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  • The children of Turann will start afresh still eager to take up and renew their cyclic labors, and they will gain, not for themselves, the Apples of the Tree of Life, and the Spear of the Will, and the Fleece which is the immortal body.

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • I was amused when the coach stopped at an inn, which bore the ominous sign of the "Fleece," to see how well accustomed he seemed to be to the ways of the place.

    John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

  • I was amused when the coach stopped at an inn, which bore the ominous sign of the "Fleece," to see how well accustomed he seemed to be to the ways of the place.

    John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Dyer, in his poem of the "Fleece," thus alludes to this incident:

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

  • Dyer, in his poem of the "Fleece," thus alludes to this incident:

    The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch 1831

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