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  • Cameron Rose reminds readers that today is the last day Newington Library will be showing pre-application plans for the new James Gillespies high school and primary school extension.

    Edinburgh today: Stills gallery tour, Fo-op Friday and Spartans win league 2011

  • Especially, and the Advocate piece doesn't mention it, the Gillespies are an interracial couple....in Texas.

    THE NEWS BLOG 2005

  • Yet it was also a sincere attempt to warn the Gillespies that Griffith still had hopes of finding additional treasure on their property, as he had mentioned Wapanucka a number of times in the motel room.

    Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

  • Masseys, the Gillespies, the Corridons, and the whole host of mercenary miscreants, who, faithless to their friends and recreant to their professions, have, paraphrasing the words of Moore, taken their perfidy to heaven seeking to make accomplice of their God -- wretches who have embalmed their memories in imperishable infamy, and given their accursed names to an inglorious immortality.

    Speeches from the Dock, Part I Various

  • He is not a real postman but he drives down for his own mail every day and "stops by" with the Gillespies '.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • I hear the _klip-klup_ of Lizzie, the postman's horse, so I can't tell you about the Gillespies until next letter.

    Jane Journeys On Ruth Comfort Mitchell 1918

  • The Stoolfires and Gillespies are all dead except Mrs. Gillespie, who lives on the old place.

    Life, Including His Escape and Struggle for Liberty of Charles A. Garlick, Born a Slave in Old Virginia, Who Secured His Freedom by Running Away from His Master's Farm in 1843 23 p. Running Away from His Master 1902

  • Gillespies were boldly and blithely bringing them, and unlike most innovators, romance came with them.

    The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

  • With their mules and horses they should make good time and within a month overhaul the train that had left the Gillespies behind.

    The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

  • Gillespies were to be absorbed and an end brought to their independent journeying, had at first loomed gloomily before David's vision.

    The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

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