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  • More zealous brethren called the Gurneys "worldly," and shook their heads over their degenerate conduct; but, all unseen, Mrs. Gurney was training up her family in ways of usefulness and true wisdom; while

    Elizabeth Fry Mrs. E. R. Pitman

  • More zealous brethren called the Gurneys “worldly,” and shook their heads over their degenerate conduct; but, all unseen, Mrs. Gurney was training up her family in ways of usefulness and true wisdom; while

    Elizabeth Fry Pitman, E R 1884

  • To pay what was necessary the 'Gurneys' had to sell their estates, and their visible ruin destroyed the credit of the concern.

    Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

  • The sketch, the music, and the video clip gave the Gurneys in Sebastopol a rush of pleasure and broad smiles.

    Joy in the Farmyard James Gurney 2010

  • Frank Zappa: “Gotta meet the Gurneys and a dozen gray attorneys.”

    Scripting News for 7/27/07 « Scripting News Annex 2007

  • It may sound a strange request but my uncle Phil recently began to put together a family tree, of Gurneys.

    Ernest Meissonier: 19th C's Most Expensive Artist James Gurney 2009

  • Tom: We Gurneys started out in Norwich and went to Massachusetts.

    Ernest Meissonier: 19th C's Most Expensive Artist James Gurney 2009

  • The festival will resurrect the old tradition of decking the brine pit with greenery and tapestry, as well as decorating the Upwich Brine Pit, the Old Pump in Gurneys Lane and St Richard's statue, with floral displays.

    St Richard's Festival in Droitwich 2008

  • Gurneys move each body to a makeshift outdoor lab where the medical examiner extracts DNA samples.

    CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2007 2007

  • Gurneys were shoved haphazardly into one corner, like discarded shopping carts in a supermarket parking lot.

    The Lake House Patterson, James, 1947- 2003

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