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The leading figures of Boston's intellectual set—Peabodys, Howes, Channings, Wards, Holmeses, Adamses—wander in and out of Fuller's story.
Let Them Be Sea Captains! Melanie Kirkpatrick 2012
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Yet ... is it possible they're more crucial to successful NFL teams than the Priest Holmeses, Adrian Petersons and Thomas Joneses of the world?
In unnoticed position, heaps of praise befell Alan Faneca in '00s 2010
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Even in today's high-tech culture, when villains use seemingly identical computers and mobiles in pursuit of their crimes, these modern-day Sherlock Holmeses can still track them down - simply through their choice of words, spacing and punctuation.
Maybe a Distinctive Style Isn't Such a Good Thing Bill Crider 2009
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Some, like the Holmeses, want to be with each other for right now.
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In the case of the Holmeses, I talked about when my father died as a kid and what that could mean for the kids, and offered my help, talked about being raised by a single mom and what a remarkable woman she is and I know she'll succeed at that, but nothing you say can make sense.
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The site hosts several other Holmes parodies; see also this extensive listing of pastiched Holmeses.
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The site hosts several other Holmes parodies; see also this extensive listing of pastiched Holmeses.
Murderous 2006
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Howells was announcing to his educated readers two cornerstones of the American realistic aesthetic a-borning: (1) the fresh, bold, colloquial Western voice now taking its rightful place beside “polite,” Augustan, Eastern letters, and (2) the use of a new psychological realism that would soon leave all the Aldriches (and the Holmeses and the Longfellows and the Whittiers) in the swirling American dust.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Howells was announcing to his educated readers two cornerstones of the American realistic aesthetic a-borning: (1) the fresh, bold, colloquial Western voice now taking its rightful place beside “polite,” Augustan, Eastern letters, and (2) the use of a new psychological realism that would soon leave all the Aldriches (and the Holmeses and the Longfellows and the Whittiers) in the swirling American dust.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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That battle of the mistletoe had been fought on the morning before Christmas-day, and the Holmeses came on Christmas-eve.
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