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  • Goldston, Jan. 31, 1877; p. Hartwell, Hanby and Eliza Jane (Christian); teacher, 1901-09; prin.

    Alumni History of the University of North Carolina 1793-1962 1924

  • Hanby went along Turner's Pike and across the wagon bridge into Bidwell and sat in a chair at the back of Birdie Spink's drug store.

    Poor White Sherwood Anderson 1908

  • Hanby, Joseph H, carpenter with W & W R R. Hanchey, Owen R, butcher, stall 19 city market, r Queen, bet 5th and 6th.

    Haddock's Wilmington, N.C., Directory, and General Advertiser, Containing a General and Business Directory of the City, Historical Sketch, State, County, City Government, &c., &c.: Thomas M. 1871

  • Hanby there was a fair show of pheasants about the house, and a good sprinkling of hares and partridges over the estate and manor generally; but refusing to prosecute the first poachers that were caught, the rest took the hint, and cleared everything off in a week, dividing the plunder among them.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • What brought Mr. Puffington, the master of the Hanby hounds, out?

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Mr. Puffington took the Mangeysterne, now the Hanby hounds, because he thought they would give him consequence.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • The latter was the case; for though the station-master assured Jack, on his arrival at Squandercash, that there was a 'bus, or a mail gig, or a something to every other train, there was nothing in connexion with the one that brought him, nor would he undertake to leave his carpet-bag at Hanby

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • The first person he overtook wending his way home in the discontented, moody humour of a thrown-out man, was Mr. Puffington master of the Hanby hounds; at whose appearance at the meet we expressed our surprise.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Prof Andrew Hanby, who heads the Leeds project, said: We are not looking at the kind of thing that would concern people about hereditary details, we are looking at the DNA alterations in tumours.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Nick Collins 2011

  • Young Hispanic population gaining on whites in Texas Five-year-old kindergarten students Gael Alvarado, left, Perla Ortiz, center, and Yahir Perez do school work in a bilingual English-Spanish class at Hanby Elementary School in Mesquite, Texas, last month.

    The Seattle Times 2011

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