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  • Chicken and pistachio curry Photograph: Romas Foord

    Observer Food Monthly Awards 2011 best reader's recipe: Maria Kuehn 2011

  • After dinner at noon, they were to sew, read, and have conversations with their mother and Miss Foord, and after supper at 6 there were more conversations and instruction in music.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • After an afternoon in which her new tutor, Sophia Foord, and her sisters went tramping through the woods destroying their clothes and getting thoroughly wet, Louisa wrote her friend Sophia Gardner back in Still River, “We are dreadful wild people here in Concord, we do all the sinful things you can think of.”

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • Husband, like as where the water runneth stillest, the Foord is deepest, even so, his smooth lookes have beguiled both you and me.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Foord ands Alric frequently have to subsidise their travels by taking ofdd jobs along the way; as well as strange new worlds they can visit parallel alternatives of Earth which are more or less the same, but not quite ... they find that many of the eccentric alien races they encounter epitomise some human folly such as greed, pretentiouenses etc., rather in the manner of Gulliver's Tarvels.

    Don't Panic Gaiman, Neil 1993

  • And Chiswell, the man who desired to be chief of the Amusement Group, was there, of course; and Miss Ripley, "her perpendicular Majesty," came to look on because she enjoyed doing so; and the "Mistress of the Revels" (Miss Russell) was looking after her young nieces, the Misses Foord, who, with all the other young misses, were there.

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

  • What time the French sought to have sackt Sea-Foord,

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Foord; the one a dimpled blonde, lovely, rosy-complexioned, with large, wonderful blue eyes; and her sister with her clear skin and dark hair and eyebrows, both wearing their contrasted and unbound tresses flowing over their graceful shoulders.

    Brook Farm John Thomas Codman

  • [Footnote 2: THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, Foord, p. 139.]

    A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

  • Stokes returned and took his diploma, but Foord remained at home.

    History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

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