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  • THE SELLER: Maryalice Huggins, an antiques restorer and the author of Aesop's Mirror, a love story about a Rococo mirror and Ms. Huggins's fascination with old things.

    A Colorful Past in Newport Sarah Tilton 2011

  • Lila Delman Real Estate The seller is Maryalice Huggins, an antiques restorer and the author of "Aesop's Mirror," a love story about a Rococo mirror and Ms. Huggins's fascination with old things.

    Newport Estate 2011

  • Then thar's Huggins's Bird Cage Op'ry House, an 'now an' then we-all floats over thar an 'takes in the dramy.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Thompson, his speshulty is ridin 'a hoss; while Peets's speshulty is shootin' a derringer, Colonel Sterett's is pol'tics, Enright's is jestice, Dave's is bein 'married, Jack Moore's is upholdin' law an 'order, Boggs's is bein' sooperstitious, Missis Rucker's is composin 'bakin' powder biscuits, an 'Huggins's is strong drink.'

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

  • Definite knowledge on the subject, however, made little advance beyond the point to which it was brought by Huggins's early experiments until spectroscopic photography became thoroughly effective as a means of research.

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • It was evidently quite time enough, for from somewhere near at hand the voices of some of the overseer's crew of followers could be heard, as if making for the middle of the clearing where the big black had set up his hut, a spot which was evidently known to Huggins's people, by the way in which they had come in search of food.

    Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Did yer see Benny Wiggs's eyes las 'year after he took the bee swarm as got all of a lump in Huggins's damsel tree?"

    The Lost Middy Being the Secret of the Smugglers' Gap George Manville Fenn 1870

  • 'As the liberated hydrogen gas became exhausted' (I now quote not Huggins's own words, but words describing his theory in a book which he has edited) 'the flame gradually abated, and, with the consequent cooling, the star's surface became less vivid, and the star returned to its original condition.'

    Myths and Marvels of Astronomy 1862

  • Huggins's is far better than theirs; but, by great odds, Beale's is the best.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Huggins's is far better than theirs; but, by great odds,

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

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