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  • On the south down of the farm of Broad-Chalk, is a little barrow, called Gawen's Barrow (which must be before ecclesiastical canons were constituted; for since, burials are only in consecrated ground).

    Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

  • Emerson Gawen, the cooperative's manager, says farmers initially planted cassava, an edible starchy plant.

    Food prices rise as Asia projects lag Patrick Barta 2010

  • Gawen sweated and struggled, setting each segment in place, but finally the pillar stood, alone in barren sand.

    Archive 2008-07-01 The Wandering Author 2008

  • Gawen sweated and struggled, setting each segment in place, but finally the pillar stood, alone in barren sand.

    The Pillar The Wandering Author 2008

  • Browghty crag [538] was tane by the Englismen, beseiged by the Governour, but still keapt; and at it was slane Gawen, the best of the Hammyltonis, [539] and the ordinance left.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Besides "Tropic of Cancer," Obelisk's publications included works by James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Lawrence Durrell, and one of the early lesbian novels in English - written, as it happens, by my grandfather, Gawen Brownrigg.

    NYT > Home Page 2012

  • In the same cause sir Peter Carew, and sir Gawen his uncle, endeavoured to raise the West, but with small success; and the attempts made by the duke of Suffolk, lately pardoned and liberated, to arm his tenantry and retainers in Warwickshire and Leicestershire, proved still more futile.

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • The family of Gawen, have been long at Norington, in the parish of

    Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

  • Mr. Thynne, in his explanation of the hard words in Chaucer, writes thus, Gawen, fol. 23, p. 1.

    Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

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