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If ever diagnosed with Groat's Disease, there is no better place to assess all the symptoms than this free app, also available for the iPad and Android devices.
Brad Spirrison: 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' with These Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good iPhone Apps Brad Spirrison 2011
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Mention other flights, casually, and speak of the Children's Crusade in search of the Northwest Passage, that was near to having been discontinued owing to a flight of sea gulls from John o 'Groat's to Land's End. This last will establish you as a master of curious knowledge.
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Groat's House, I was spoken to by an elderly gentleman, on the
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Since then the variations in dialect and pronunciation which prevailed in different districts of England have largely disappeared, and from Land's End to John o 'Groat's the bilingual system is now securely established, though my mother told me that as a child she once met an old man in Northumberland who could only speak a few words of Irish, and had been deprived of his vote in consequence.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 31, 1917 Various
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On the coast of the Pentland Firth, 1½ miles west of Dunscansbay Head, is the site of John o 'Groat's house.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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Public Library an exhibition of Shakespearean books, including all the early editions of the quartos; the various editions of the folios; the works of contemporaneous authors whom Shakespeare had consulted; and also the early works that mention Shakespeare, or cite from his plays or poems, including Greene's "Groat's Worth of Wit", published in 1592 by Henry Chettle and containing the earliest printed allusion to
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Land's-end to John o 'Groat's; was printed in every collection of national songs, and drew tears from our military countrymen both in
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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English history; that it has become the national epic of Britain, and is familiar to noble and simple from John o 'Groat's house to Land's
Life and Conduct J. Cameron Lees
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John o 'Groat's is forty-five miles distant, but this, as well as other places of interest in the neighbourhood, is within visiting range by the cars, though such long distances were not attempted with the equine species.
The Portland Peerage Romance Charles J. Archard
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